THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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Just from letters. Wade Lucas was from Baldur; he'd[Pg 21] gone
off-planet as soon as he'd gotten his M.D. Evidently the professional
situation there was the same as on Terra; plenty of opportunities, and
fifty competitors for each one. On Poictesme, there were few
opportunities, but nobody competed for anything, not even to find Merlin.

"He'd never heard of Merlin till he came here, and when he did, he just
couldn't believe in it. I don't blame him. I've heard about it all my
life, and I can't."

"Why not?"

"To begin with, I suppose, because it's just another of these things
everybody believes. Then, I've had to do some studying on the Third
Force occupation of Poictesme to know where to go and dig, and I never
found any official, or even reliably unofficial, mention of anything of
the sort. Forty years is a long time to keep a secret, you know. And I