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"And look what we found," Kurt Fawzi added, pointing at the ceiling. "Is
that Merlin up there, or isn't it?"

"That little thing!" Shanlee cried scornfully. "How could that be
Merlin? I am going to my chamber, to pray for forgiveness for this
wretch."[Pg 165]

He turned and started for the door.

"Stop him, Tom!" Conn said, and Tom Brangwyn put himself in front of the
older man, gripping his right arm. Shanlee tried, briefly, to resist.

"Seems to me you lost faith in Merlin awfully quick," the former town
marshal of Litchfield said. "You knew there was a Merlin all along, and
you never wanted us to find it."

Franz Veltrin, who had been "Leibert's" most enthusiastic adherent, had