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"Well, thank you, General Travis," another voice, from the
screen-speaker, was saying. The only calm voice in the room. "That was a
most excellent statement, sir. It should...."

"Conn, you didn't tell us you'd talked to General Travis," Morgan
Gatworth was saying. "Why didn't you?"

"Because I never believed anything he told me. You were in Kurt Fawzi's
office the day I came home; you know how shocked everybody was when I
told you I hadn't been able to learn anything positive. Why should I
repeat his lies and discourage everybody that much more? Why, he'd deny
there was a Merlin if he was sitting on top of it," Conn declared. "He
wants the credit for winning the War, not for letting Merlin win it for
him."

"I don't blame Conn," Klem Zareff said. "If he'd told us that then, some
of us might have believed it."