"'Gene Black, the engineer discharged from this camp, is serving the enemy.
Black has brains enough to see that our wire was cut before he started a thing moving." Click-click-click! spoke the sounder again.
"I can't get a thing," explained the operator.

"I can't even get a response from the construction camp.

Mr.Reade must be right---our wire has been cut and we're shut off from the outside world.".