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The story takes place before the beginning of a war between Earth and Mars. The last Terran ship is preparing to leave the orbit of the Red Planet when it is forced to land at the final checkpoint: the Martians, having just learned that one of their cities has been destroyed, are looking for three saboteurs, and they insist on subjecting the passengers to a lie detector (a voice analyzer, a large metal box). The passengers are cleared, and the ship departs.
But the scene shifts to the lounge, where one of the passenger/saboteurs soon begins to tell his story. It is exciting, but rather predictable too—like one of those stories of the French Resistance—until he gets to the part where we learn how he and his comrades "destroyed" the city.
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