He stared hard at her. "Do you want to?"
"Yes."
"You'll accept that responsibility? I didn't think you wanted to be involved . . ."
"We can keep the routine messages flowing," Diane said, ignoring his question. "And the computer data exchanges, of course. I can monitor all the personal messages and make certain they don't contain anything damaging. I could even run them through the cryptographic computer, just to be certain no one's sending coded messages."
For a moment Kinsman wondered if he could truly trust her. But he said, "Okay. Good. And thanks."
Diane left the office. Kinsman turned to the worried Kelly. "Who's left?"
"That's everybody." Kelly's voice was shaky.
"What about Ernie Waterman?"
Kelly flinched as if slapped. "Ernie's not a department head."
"I know. But he's a key man. I want his reaction. Didn't I ask you to call him earlier?"
Kelly started to shake his head. "And Frank Colt. Where's he? Get somebody to track him down."
"Okay."
Kinsman watched Kelly working with the phone. The guy's scared half to death!
"Pat."
Kelly jerked away from the phone keyboard. "Yeah?
What?"
"Calm down," Kinsman said softly. "It's going to be all right. Everything's going better than I had hoped it would. There's not going to be any shooting."
Biting his lip, "Yeah. Maybe."
"I'm going to try to get Leonov on the phone. Meantime, you call Chris Perry in here."
"Perry? What for?"
