THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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for some time, keeping to safe generalities. "It's too big for my father
and me to handle alone, even if we didn't feel morally obligated to take
in the people who contributed toward sending me to school on Terra. You
ought to be interested in it. I know of six fully supplied hospitals,
intended to take care of the casualties in case of a System States
space-attack. You can imagine, better than I can, what would be in them."

"Yes. Medical supplies of all sorts are getting hard to find. But look
here; you're not going to let these people waste time looking for this
alleged computer, this thing they call Merlin, are you?"

"We're looking for any valuable war material. I don't know the location
of Merlin, but?"

"I'll bet you don't!" Lucas said vehemently. That was the same thing
Flora had said.