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called the Safe Room, and its double-insulated, soundproofed, and unmonitored.
It's entered, if you can believe this, through Vogel's private bathroom, and the
door itself can be locked and secured from the inside. You could live through a
bomb blast in there, and you could also not hear a full-scale invasion. It's his
retreat-the one place in there where he feels totally safe. It's reinforced top
and bottom as well, and is as secure as a bank vault. He spends a lot of time in
there. We built it that way because the records and codes for the Company and
Labyrinth that are the sole privy of the stationmaster must be kept somewhere
safe and it was the easiest and safest point at which we could modify the place
and install such a thing without ripping the old building down."
"Yeah, but so what?" Sam said a little cynically. "Even if you had some way of
getting somebody in there with him, somebody who could take Vogel-and I'm not
sure you can-then what? You can't get him out. I'm sure the place has no
windows. So, anybody would have to take the leader out the only door, and all
he'd need to do was give some signal, some indication, and you were dead."
"Give us some credit. We weren't going to build a place like that where the
stationmaster, in a crisis, couldn't get put before it all blew. There's another
door-an exit only, in the floor. Not even Vogel can use it to get in-it's
booby-trapped and designed to jam and trap somebody inside who tried it. One way
only. An emergency exit. It leads down through the walls to the basement area,
then into a tunnel that runs out back of the house and all the way to the
station, coming up here, near the control room stairway. The final defense is
very simple, really-a bunch of rods that support a particular part of the tunnel
ceiling. Even try opening or blowing your way through from the station end and
the rods collapse-and so does half the tunnel. From inside, though, you only
have to throw a few levers to move the rods to a safety position, allowing the
door to open. When it closes again, the rods slip back into place. One way only,
as I said."
This was suddenly gettin' interestin', although I still wasn't too sure I liked
where it was goin'.
"What we propose is this," Markham went on. "Two separate actions both timed to
the second. One is a diversionary attack on the wall from outside. That'll draw
security's attention and most of the security personnel. At the same time, our
team will use a command force from the Labyrinth to enter the station even if
it's not operating. With the gate open, we can tap whatever power and forces we
need. We'll be in our element. We could hold that place for an incredible length
of time, even against direct bomb hits and worse."
"How long?" Sam pressed. "If you need a diversion it means they'll know they've
been had even if they can't get to you. How long can you hold it before you'll
have to withdraw or risk being blown up?"
"I doubt if they'll blow up the whole complex with an external attack
jeopardizing their escape routes, but we figure thirty, maybe forty minutes
tops."
"Uh huh. And what about Vogel? He's not going to know there even is an attack if
he's as isolated as you say, but if he does learn it, he's also going to know
that it's the Company because they have the station and he's not going to exit
that way. He'll hotfoot it out of there a different way and make for a hidden
substation just like Cranston did."
"No, it won't be as easy for Vogel as it was for Cranston, who built one of his
houses over a weak point and assembled a substation there. This isn't Oregon,