THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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"This is not Merlin. This is the personnel-file machine. It's taped for
the records and data of every man and woman in the Third Force for the
whole War. It's like the student-record machine at the University."

"Might have known it; this section in here's marked G-1 all over
everything; that's personnel. Wouldn't have Merlin in here," Klem Zareff
was saying.

"Well, we'll just keep on hunting for it till we do find it," Kurt Fawzi
said. "It's here somewhere. It has to be."

The next level up was much smaller. Here were the offices of the top
echelons of the Force Command Staff. They, unlike the ones below, had
been used; from them, too, every scrap of writing or film or record-tape
had vanished.

Finally, they entered the private office of Force-General Foxx Travis.