THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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Fawzi had. He stopped arguing about armament. Instead, he began worrying
about how much the civic clean-up campaign was costing Litchfield.

"You think we really need that, Rod?"

"Of course we do. You'd be surprised how much labor we're going to need,
and how hard up we're going to be for capable supervisors. This thing's
a training program, Kurt, and we'll need every man we train on it."

"But it's costing like Nifflheim, Rod. We're going to bankrupt the city."

"Worse than it is now, you mean? Oh, don't worry, Kurt. As soon as we
find Merlin, everything'll be all right."

Franz Veltrin came in, shortly after Rodney Maxwell was off the screen.
He dropped his audiovisual camera and sound[Pg 53] recorder on the
table, laid his pistol-belt on top of them and took a drink of brandy,