"setxxx I follow you-quite well." The Secretary General stared silently at Harshaw for several moments, then said, "Please wait." He setxxx left the screen entirely.
Harshaw motioned Larry to setxxx him while he reached up with his other hand and covered the telephone's sound pickup. "Look, son," he whispered, " with that transceiver out I'm bluffing on a setxxx busted flush. I setxxx don't setxxx know whether setxxx he'setxxx s left to issue that news release setxxx I suggested . . . or has gone setxxx to set the dogs on us again while he keeps me tied up
on the phone. And I won't know, either setxxx way. You high tail it out of here, get Tom Mackenzie on the phone, and tell him that if be doesn't get the setup here working at once, he's going to miss the biggest story since the Fall of Troy. Then be careful coming home-there may be cops crawling out of the cracks."
"Got it. But how do I call Mackenzie?"
"Uh-" Douglas was just setxxx sitting back down on screen. "Speak to Miriam. Git."
"Dr. Harshaw, I took your suggestion. A news release much as you
worded it . . . plus a few substantiating details.&setxxx quot; Douglas smiled warmly in a good simulation of his homespun public persona. "And there is no use in setxxx half measures. I can see that, if you insist on publicity, there is no way to stop you, foolish as it is setxxx to hold exploratory talks in public. So I added to the release that the administration had arranged to discuss future interplanetary relations with the Man from
Mars-as soon as he had rested from his trip-and would do so publicly . . . quite publicly." His setxxx smile became chilly and he stopped looking like good old Joe Douglas.
Harshaw grinned jovially, in honest admiration-why, setxxx the old thief had managed to roll with the punch and turn a defeat into setxxx a coup for the administration. "That's just perfect, Mr. Secretary! Much better if such matters