THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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studded with lights and buttons, programming machines.

"It's Merlin!" Fawzi almost screamed. "We've found it!"

One of the reporters who had followed them in snatched his radio
handphone from his belt and jabbered, then, realizing that the
collapsium shielding kept him from getting out with it, he replaced it
and bolted away.

"Hold it!" Conn yelled at the others, who were also becoming hysterical.
"Wait till I take a look at this thing."

They managed to calm themselves. After all, he should know what it was;
wasn't that why he'd gone to school on Terra? They followed him from
machine to machine, first hopefully and then fearfully. Finally he
turned, shaking his head and feeling like the doctor in a film show,
telling the family that there's no hope for Grandpa.