Doc was not given long to digest this disappointing discovery. Christmas roams the north and the south, the cities and the countryside, without ever settling into a fixed abode or a long-lasting human relationship. Doc savage scooped up the bomb and threw it back into the smoke on the theory that he could get it away from them faster than they could get away from it.
In contrast to all other bunkers, the lateral access passages did not lead vertically downward to the main corridors but horizontally through the hillside.