"Perhaps I could help you?" Devil Garrett asked smoothly from the door.
Star whirled, thrust Anne behind him, but there was no way out. Garrett
stood in the door, and there were men behind him. The jet in his hand
could kill both of the two at one shot. And they had no weapons to
resist with.
Devil Garrett stepped them out of the room, and down the corridor,
through a large door Star had noticed at the end of the passage, and
into a huge room.
It must have been a thousand feet long, and half that wide. It was at
least a hundred yards deep. And it was almost filled with gigantic
machines.
Between the machinery, the spaces were almost filled with steel ladders
and cat-walks. Crews of men swarmed over them. It was the largest mass
of equipment Starrett had ever seen.
His eyes began to pick out details. Those huge vat-like things down
at the far end, with the large cables running into them, and the
mighty pumps connected to them ... they were probably the electrolysis
chambers.
And those great pipes, they must carry the hydrogen and oxygen from
the electro chambers to the large replicas of engines, which could be
nothing else but the explosion chambers, where the gases were allowed
to re-unite, and explode. And there by the giant engines, those must be
turbines, which in turn connected with the vast-sized generators just
under the platforms on which they stood.
* * * * *
Star Blade whistled softly through his teeth. A huge enterprise! It
could be ... but for a moment he had forgotten Devil Garrett.