20 "You mean they never had a working bomb?"
gasped Bullet, "We could have simply rushed them anytime or starved
them out?"
21 "You've got the idea," the man answered. "Chances are, the bomb at
the arsenal is the same!"
22 Bullet sat down on some rubble and just stared at the mess around
him. "Damn!" he sighed, "Damn!"
23 Red Crow shook his head. "Come on," he ordered, "we've still got to
clean out the building." The others followed him, glancing back one
more time, at the useless bomb.
24 It didn't take them long to finish their work. The men at
the arsenal tried to detonate their bomb and the Technician was proven
right. All it did was kill the men standing around it, and contaminate
the room they were in. It was a simple matter of pouring the tunnels
full of concrete. It became the men's tomb for eternity. A weary Bullet
flew home to a well deserved vacation.
25 At the airport, though, he took time to publicly thank the Film
Crew, whose brilliant acting had convinced The Lovers that the attack
on the city was real. He also expressed his sympathies for the three
men who had accidently died, making the attack realistic. "Their
courage was as great," he said , "as if they had fought in the real
battle. And the job they did made our victory possible. Far more life
could have been lost without their effort."
26 He was tired on the plane, but sleep would not come. He picked up
a paper from the seat beside him, and glanced at the front
page. There was a picture of a young man standing by an emergency
truck. The title above the picture read "YOUNG MAN ON LEAVE FROM PRISON
PULLS WOMAN FROM BURNING CAR MOMENTS BEFORE IT EXPLODES."
27 Bullet read the story. The young man had just got off the bus, near
the factory gate to go for a job interview, when a short way down the
road a large piece of scrap fell off a truck and was struck by an
oncoming car.