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Are you aware of NUMA's efforts to track down and stop e call an acoustic plague?"

responded Sandecker

"I've heard rumors"

"What do you think?"

"Pretty farfetched"

"The President's National Science Board agrees," Sandecker growled

"I can't say I really blame them"

"You don't believe sound can travel thousands of kilometers underwater, then surface and kill?"

"Output fro in the sa distance? Not a hypothesis I'd reco my peers"

"Hypothesis be damned!" Sandecker burst out "The dead already total over four hundred Colonel Leigh Hunt, one of our nation's finest pathologists, has proven conclusively that the cause of death is intense sound waves"

"That's not what I heard from the postmortem reports out of Australia"

"You're an old fake, Doc," said Sandecker, s the situation"

"Any time the subject of acoustics is mentioned, I'm interested"

They reached Sandecker's ball first He selected a number three wood and knocked his ball into a sand trap twenty reen

"You too seem to have an affinity for sand traps," said Ames offhandedly