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"All right. So ever since, they've had people here, listening, watching,
spying. This Lucas; he showed up here about a year after you went to
Terra. And who does he get engaged to? Your sister. And what does he do
here? Goes around arguing that there is no Merlin, getting people to
argue with him, getting them mad, so they'll blurt out anything they
know. I'm an old field officer; I know all the prisoner-interrogation
tricks in the book, and that's always been one of the best."

"Then why did he act the way he did at the meeting? All he did there was
cut himself off from learning anything more from any of us. In his
place, would you have done that? No; you'd have tried to take the lead
in hunting for Merlin yourself. Now wouldn't you?"

Zareff was silent, first puzzled, and then hurt. Now he would have to
tear the whole idea down and build it over.

Flora was quite friendly when she came home from school. She'd found