THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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his feet.

"Then," he said, "we will build a hypership. On Koshchei there are
shipyards and hyperdrive engines and everything we will need. We only
need one normal-space interplanetary ship to get out there, and we're in
business."

"Well, I don't know we need one," Judge Ledue said. "That was only an
idea of Lorenzo's. I think Merlin's right here on Poictesme."

"We don't know it is," Conn replied. "And we don't know we won't need a
ship. Merlin may be on Koshchei; that's where the components would be
fabricated, and the Armed Forces weren't hauling anything any farther
than they had to. Koshchei's only two and a half minutes away by radio;
that's practically in the next room. Look; here's how they could have
done it."