Soldiers rushed the conveyor, but when the door opened and Malenkov stood revealed in the entrance, they saluted smartly. "Bring your commanding officer," said Dorlup, and when the man came--a full Marshal--Dorlup ordered three of the most powerful atomic bombs for the conveyor. They were brought on flatcars, jerry-rigged to the conveyor's bottom at Tedor's direction, with a crude releasing device. "This is--is somewhat irregular," said the Marshal. Dorlup said nothing, looked at him scornfully. "I am sorry, Comrade Premier." "You should be." They closed themselves within the conveyor, set the first of their atomic bombs for ten seconds, retreated thirty seconds into the past and took off. In forty seconds they had climbed to thirty thousand feet. Intense light engulfed the conveyor as it sped away, followed almost at once by a shock wave which buffetted them helplessly about the cabin of the conveyor. Below them and now far to their left, a great atomic mushroom billowed into the sky, then slowed, rising serenely on a brown and violet pillar. "Let's hit the next one," said Tedor and they did so. The third storage area was far out beyond the Ural Mountains and to the North, in the remote Siberian wilderness of the great Eurasian land-mass. They retreated back into time far enough to account for the two hours it took them to rocket from the Urals to Siberia, then circled over the storage areas while searchlights probed the sky for them like groping fingers. "That way," Tedor explained, "all the plants will blow up simultaneously, with no chance for one to warn another." They circled, and Dorlup said, "I'm bringing her down." "Just a minute." It was Laniq, sitting near the telio. "Someone's calling." A face flashed into view on the screen--Ruscar. "Let me speak to Barwan," he said. "You have a few seconds to decide whether you want to live or die." "Take the conveyor back up," Tedor told Dorlup, and went to the telio. Ruscar looked far from happy. "Tedor, you still have a chance. I've been following you in time, ever since we found out what happened to Malenkov and Chenkov. You can't stop me now, Tedor. Everything is ready and there are enough atom and hydrogen bombs here at this one base to do the job." Tedor was looking at Ruscar for the first time since his dual life had been revealed. Enemy of time-tyrants on the one hand, tyrant who wanted all the world and all of time under his control on the other. "Throw in with me, Tedor! I'll forget what you've done. We need men like you." Tedor shook his head. "It would take me years to tell you what I think of you, so I won't even try. The answer is no." "My conveyor is five miles to the south, Tedor. We're going to blow you out of the sky unless you--" Tedor snapped the telio off, went to the controls and replaced Dorlup at them. "Can he do it?" Laniq wanted to know.