Haney said in indignation: "I came out here to ask the Major to help us. The Chief's gettin' a gang together, too. There's some Indians of his tribe that work here. We can count on them for plenty of rough stuff. And there's Joe and me. The point is that Mike's stunt makes it certain that everything busts loose at a time we can know in advance. If the Major gives us a free hand, and then in the last five minutes takes his own measures--so they can't leak out ahead of time and tip off the gangs we want to get--we oughta knock off all the expert saboteurs who know the weak spots in the Platform. For instance those who know that thermite in the gyros would mess everything up all over again." Joe said quietly: "But Major Holt has to be told well in advance about all this! That's absolute!" "Yeah," agreed Haney. "But also he has got to keep quiet--not tell anybody else! There've been too many leaks already about too many things. You know that!" Joe said: "Sally, see if you can get your father to come here and talk. Haney's right. Not in his office. Right here." Sally got up and went inside the house. She came back with an uneasy expression on her face. "He's coming. But I couldn't very well tell him what was wanted, and--I'm not sure he's going to be in a mood to listen." When the Major arrived he was definitely not in a mood to listen. He was a harried man, and he was keyed up to the limit by the multiplied strain due to the imminence of the Platform's take-off. He came back to his house from a grim conference on exactly the subject of how to make preparations against any possible sabotage incidents--and ran into a proposal to stimulate them! He practically exploded. Even if provocation should be given to saboteurs to lure them into showing their hands, this was no time for it! And if it were, it would be security business. It should not be meddled in by amateurs! Joe said grimly: "I don't mean to be disrespectful, sir, but there's a point you've missed. It isn't thinkable that you'll be able to prevent something from being tried at a time the saboteurs pick. They've got just so much time left, and they'll use it! But Mike's plan would offer them a diversion under cover of which they could pull their own stuff! And besides that, you know your office leaks! You couldn't set up a trick like this through security methods. And for a third fact, this is the one sort of thing no saboteur would expect from your security organization! We caught the saboteurs at the pushpot field by guessing at a new sort of thinking for sabotage. Here's a chance to catch the saboteurs who'll work their heads off in the next twenty-four hours or so, by using a new sort of thinking for security!"