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restoring planetary prosperity."

"No, of course not; a hypership of our own. But...." He looked from one
to the other of them. "But I understood.... That is, Mr. Kurt Fawzi was
saying...."

"Mr. Fawzi is looking for Merlin here on Poictesme. If anybody finds it,
that's where it'll be found. I'm interested in getting business started
again. If Merlin is found, it would help, of course." He shrugged.

"Don't look at me," Jacquemont said. "Mr. Maxwell?both of them, father
and son?want some spaceships. They hired me to help build them. That's
all I have in it." Then he relit the cigar the President had given him
and leaned back in[Pg 130] his chair, staring at the stuffed alcesoid
head with the seven-foot hornspread above the fireplace.

Conn described the interview to his father after they were back at the