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"Yes. They have a fifty-foot shaft down from the top of the mesa almost
to the top of the underground headquarters. They found something on top
of the headquarters; a disc-shaped mass, fifty feet thick and a hundred
across, armored in collapsium. It's directly over what used to be Foxx
Travis's office."

"That's not a tenth big enough for anything that could even resemble
Merlin."

"Well, it's something. I was out there day before yesterday. They're
down to the collapsium on top of this thing; I rode down the shaft in a
jeep and looked at it. Look, Conn, we don't know what this Project
Merlin was; all this lore about Merlin that's grown up since the War is
pure supposition."

"But Foxx Travis told me, categorically, that there was no Merlin
Project," Conn said. "The War's been over forty years; it's not a