Dan looked at the head of A Section and said fervently, "Thank you,
Kielgaard."
The doctor in the white jacket was arguing to no visible effect as the
tube was held to Dan's eyes, snapped back into the case, and the case
clapped shut, to give its loud alarm clang.
The assassin with the gun calmly leveled it at Dan and fired.
All he hit was a suddenly empty bed.
Dan had said the key word.
End of Project Gutenberg's A Tourist Named Death, by Christopher Anvil
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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