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They'd have to have computers, and the one they'd use to correlate
everything and work out grand-strategy plans would have to be a dilly.
Why, I'd give anything just to look at the operating panels for that thing."

"But that's just a silly story; there never was anything like Merlin. No
wonder you couldn't find out about it. You were looking for something
that doesn't exist, just like all these old cranks that sit around
drinking brandy and mooning about[Pg 27] what Merlin's going to do for
them, and never doing anything for themselves."

"Oh, they're going to do something, now, Flora," his father told her.
"When we get this company organized?"

"You'll dig up a lot of stuff you won't be able to sell, like that stuff
you've been bringing in from Tenth Army, and then you'll go looping off
chasing Merlin, like the rest of them. Well, maybe that'll be a little
better than just sitting in Kurt Fawzi's office talking about it, but