THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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five-centisol piece."

Nobody said anything for a few seconds. Carl Leibert stated that Divine
Power would aid them. Nobody paid much attention; Leibert's stock seemed
to have gone bearish since he had found nothing in the butte and Fawzi
had found that whatever-it-was on top of Force Command.

"Means we're going to dig the whole blasted top off, clear down to where
that thing is," Zareff said. "That'll take a year."

"Oh, no. Maybe a couple of weeks, after we get started," Conn told them.
"It'll take longer to get the stuff loaded on a ship and hauled here
than it will to get that thing uncovered and opened."

He told them about the machines they used in the iron mines on Koshchei,
and as he talked, he stopped worrying about how he was going to take
charge here. He had just been unanimously elected Indispensable Man.