THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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"He makes noises like it."

"You know what I think?" Klem Zareff lowered his voice to a whisper. "I
think he's a Federation spy! I think the Federation's lost Merlin.
That's why they haven't come back to get it long ago."

"Pretty big thing to mislay."

"It could happen. There'd only be a few scientists and some high staff
officers who'd know where it was. Well, say[Pg 54] they all went back to
Terra on the same ship, and the ship was lost at space. Sabotage, one of
our commerce raiders that hadn't heard the War was over, maybe just an
ordinary accident. But the ship's lost, and the location of Merlin's
lost with her."

"That could happen," Conn agreed seriously.