Harshaw motioned Larry to him while he reached up with his other hand and covered the telephone's sound pickup. "Look, son," he whispered, "with that transceiver out I'm bluffing on a busted flush.  I don't know whether he's left to issue that news release I suggested... or has gone to set the dogs on us again while he keeps me tied up on the phone.  And I won't know, either way.  You high tail it out of here, get Tom Mackenzie on the phone, and tell him that if be doesn't get the setup here working at once, he's going to miss the biggest story since the Fall of Troy.  Then be careful coming home - there may be cops crawling out of the cracks."