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"She's moved!"

No one reacted immediately

"She moved," the sonar operator repeated His voice had a quiver to it

"Are you sure?" Sandecker whispered

"Stake my life on it"

Spencer was too stunned to speak He could only stare at the sonarscope with an expression of abject incredulity Then his lips began working "The aftershocks!" he said "The aftershocks caused a delayed reaction"

"Rising," the sonar operator shouted, banging his fist on the areous old bucket of bolts has broken free She's co up"

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At first everybody was too dumbstruck to ht tortuousfor, had sneaked up behind the Then the electrifying news began to sink in and they all began shouting at the saineers during a rocket liftoff

"Go baby, go!" Sandecker shouted as joyfully as a schoolboy

"Move, you mother!" Giordino yelled "Move, move!"

"Keep co palace, you," Spencer murmured

Suddenly, Pitt rushed across to the radio and clutched Curly's shoulder in a viselike grip

"Quick, contact Woodson on the Sappho II Tell hiet the hell out of the way before he's run over"

"Still on a surface course," the sonar operator said "Speed of ascent accelerating"