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He went on talking, about remote controls and radio transmission and
positronic brains and neutrino-circuits. They believed it all, even the
little they understood. They would[Pg 18] believe anything he told them
about Merlin?except the truth.

"But this will take money," Lester Dawes said. "And after that infernal
deluge of unsecured paper currency thirty years ago ..."

"I have no doubt," Judge Ledue began, "that the Planetary Government at
Storisende would give assistance. I have some slight influence with
President Vyckhoven ..."

"Huh-/uh/!" That was one of Klem Zareff's fellow planters. "We don't
want Jake Vyckhoven or any of this First-Families-of-Storisende
oligarchy in this at all. That's the gang that bankrupted the Government
with doles and work relief, and everybody else with worthless
printing-press money after the War, and they've been squatting in a