Maybe a man was better off in the city—in the war plants. "Well what do you know about that!"
"Pop! You aren't listening."
"Oh yes, I am."
"But you don't believe me."
"I sure do."
"The box had a lot of tubes and dials on it."
Of course, now they'd taken the profit out of war there wasn't much more money there either unless you worked fifteen hours a day. "Was Roy there waiting for you?"
"Pop! It wasn't make believe! The box was really there and the Eastern Bloc is going to use it to wreck our space station."
"They'd better not!" That was another thing. If the blow ever fell and all the brains thought it was sure to, a man had better have his family as far from a city as possible.
"I thought maybe they would capture Buck and me so we couldn't tell on them but there wasn't anybody there. We got away all right."