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also lost faith suddenly; he was shouting vituperation at the Prophet of
Merlin.

"Knock it off, Franz; he was only doing his duty," Conn said. "Weren't
you, General Shanlee?"

It took almost a minute before they stopped yelling for an explanation
and allowed him to make one. He caught Klem Zareff's comment: "Must be
pretty hot, if they have to send a general to handle it."

"I talked to Travis, yes. He gave me the same story he just repeated on
that interview," Conn said, picking his way carefully between fact and
fiction. "After I went back to Montevideo, he and this aide of his must
have been afraid I didn't believe it, which I didn't. When I was ready
to graduate, I got this offer of an instructorship; that was a bribe to
keep me on Terra and off Poictesme. When I turned it down and took the
/Mizar/ home, Travis sent Shanlee after me. He must have grown that