"We'll take the gadgets?"
"Right. What are you using for power?"
"What other? Solar beams, of course. We don't bother about running stuff around any more. We plug it in the 115-volt line, it energizes the little fellows just long enough to make them self-sustaining from Sol. All the 115-volt line does is to act as a starting circuit."
"You and Farrell had better dream up a couple of power supplies then. We can't use the solar beam on Terra."
"I know. We're a little ahead of you on that. Wes and one of the Thomas boys cooked up a beam-transducer power supply that will get its juice from any standard 115-volt, sixty-cycle line socket. We've got two of them—and they run the things easily."
"Good. I'll 'gram Terran Electric and let 'em know we're on our way for the legal tangle. You load up the Relay Girl and we'll be on our way. Stock up the usual supply of bars, blocks, gadgets, and traps. Might include a bar magnet. When we show that it is still magnetized, we'll gain a point for sure."
"If we take a magnet, we'd better take the fluxmeter to show that the magnetic field hasn't dropped."
"Right. Take anything you can think of for a good show. We can knock them dead!"
Mark Kingman put his assistant legal counsel on the witness stand. "You will state the intent of the contract signed between Terran Electric and Venus Equilateral."