t's leader was alone in here. Undoubtedly, he was awaiting
others, drivers of the trucks, technicians involved in the rockets, other
subordinates. But right now he was alone.

If Woolford correctly diagnosed the situation, Voss was playing for time,
waiting for the others. Good enough, so was Larry Woolford. Had the
Professor only known it, a shout would have brought at least two followers
and the government agent would have had his work cut out for him.

Woodford played along. "Just what is this fantastic scheme of yours for
raining down money over half the country, Voss? The very insanity of it
proves your whole outfit is composed of a bunch of nonconformist weirds."

The Professor was indignant--and stalling for time. He said,
"Nonconformists is correct! He who conforms in an incompetent society is
an incompetent himself."

Larry stood, his legs apart and hands on hips. He shook his head in
simulated pity at the angry little man. "What's all this about raining
money down over the country?"

"Don't you see?" the other said. "The perfect method for disrupting our
present system of social-labels. With billions of dollars, perfect
counterfeit, strewing the streets, the fields, the trees, available for
anyone to pick up, all social currency becomes worthless. Utterly
unusable. And it's no use to attempt to print more with another design,
because we can duplicate it as well. Our experts are the world's best,
we're not a group of sulking criminals but capable, trained, dedicated
men.

"Very well! We will have made it absolutely impossible to have any form of
mass-produced social currency."

Larry stared at him. "It would completely foul the whole business system!
You'd have chaos!"

"At first. Private individuals, once the value of money was seen to be
zero, would have lost the amount of cash they had on hand. But banks and
such institutions would lose little. They have accurate records that show
the actual values they held at the time our money rains down."

Larry was bewildered. "But what are you getting at? What do you expect to
accomplish?"

The Professor, on his favorite subject, said triumphantly, "The only form
of currency that can be used under these conditions is the _personal_
check. It's not mass produced, and mass-production can't duplicate it.
It's immune to the attack. Business has to go on, or people will starve--so
personal checks will have to replace paper money. Credit cards and
traveler's chec