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your fellow man; that is a sin."

He rose slowly, the bathrobe flapping at his bare shins, and sat down
across the table from Conn.

"All right," he said. "I'll tell you about it. I'll tell you the truth,
which will be something of a novelty all around."

Shanlee puffed for a moment at the cigarette; it must really have tasted
good after his long abstinence.

"You know, we were really caught off balance when the War ended. It even
caught Merlin short; information lag, of course. The whole Alliance
caved in all at once. Well, we fed Merlin all the data available, and
analyzed the situation. Then we did something we really weren't called
upon to do, because that was policy-planning and wasn't our province,
but we were going to move an occupation army into System States planets,