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A tuna-boat was towing a lead torpedo through the darkness. It was, as it happened, heading back toward the island which was its base as it let the volatile liquid pour out on the sea. It had been forced to make a wide circuit to avoid observation by ships below the horizon. But otherwise everything was commonplace.
Then, without drama, the wind seemed to change peculiarly. Not the upper wind above the sea's surface -- just the wind at the water's own level, saturated with the vapor of the liquid the torpedo had let out.