THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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He said the same thing Sylvie had said. "The only thing we can do is get
that infernal thing uncovered. Once we do this, everything'll be all
right. We'll show your mother that it isn't a fake and it isn't anything
dangerous; we'll put a stop to all these horror-stories about mechanical
devils and living machines...."

Conn drew his father off where the girls couldn't overhear.

"This is something worse," he said. "This is a bomb that could blow up
the whole Federation."

"Are you going nuts, too?" his father demanded.

Conn told him about Shanlee; he repeated, almost word for word, the
story Shanlee had told.

"Do you believe that?" his father asked.