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Tchung sed The Dornbaker Account! Oh, Holy Director of Heavenly Archives! If I open those circuits, these governo directly to the Dornbaker Account

"What are those circuits doing?" Aht lie, then the conditioning of a lifeti on the problereater economy in our operations, Ser Ambroso"

"We will take care of your economy problems," Ambroso said "You clear those circuits"

"I turned to his controls, flipped the co in Section CC of the two hundred and twenty-fourth sublevel will have top priority on all computer time All previous priority commitments are rescinded by this order"

The speaker eed and filed"

Once ive us, please It was not a deliberate obstruction The first rule of our Code is that we overnment"

"So you say" Ambroso allowed himself a slow smile "But if there are further indications that you are atte to obstruct us, I will land a force from the monitor to insure that there are no recurrences"

"I&039;ain, A could be sure of it Aht by the curios on the table behind Tchung In four swift strides, Aolden statuette froed boot with a Naos inscription on the base

"Expensive bauble," Ao for this decoration?"

"A gift from the Researchers of Naos on our ten thousandth anniversary," Tchung said

Again, the tic-smile touched Ambroso&039;s face He replaced the statuette delicately "So very long So very, very long And all of those centuries you have beamed your nonsense into space So many wasteful broadcasts without an iota of infor&039;s features stiffened "We broadcast s, that is true Our inforram selection is, as you know, purely randonificant data will be selected every"

"Yes, yes," Ambroso said "So it&039;s clai said "That does not alter the fact that we gather artifacts and information from the far reaches of our universeand that we hold back nothing in e disseh for the occasional gee concealed his anger and murmured: "It has been said that we deal in the unexpected But there are ti as the weapons on our monitor?" A said "And tie," Ambroso said "Neays clear out the errors of the past Theysaid

Alowered at him "You collect useless junk! Pack Rats!"

"They once were known as Trade Rats," Tchung said "The original animals, I mean They stole fro behind froht contain a ruby which would be traded for a small piece of elastic Fortunate the camper when that happened"

"What about the caot a s, whirled away and strode fro picked up the winged boot, rubbed it with his thurateful Archives had saved them three centuries of work on the probleroups The Naos planets were known today for the dynamic spirit of their people, a fact recorded in the inscription beneath the golden boot:

"Infor replaced the winged boot on the shelf The thing had filled him with a momentary sense of the hoary antiquity over which he presided -- a sense he had not experienced in quite that way since his youth This was followed ihtened his throat

Is it about to end?

Unconsciously, he turned in the direction of Free Island Dornbaker Your secret is out, but the stakes are higher than anyone anticipated Act wisely, Sil-Chanbut not too wisely

Sil-Chan had approached Free Island Dornbaker at , his hands on the jetter&039;s controls slippery with perspiration He found hiical desire to turn and run The closer he ca becasayan while officials cleared his flight to the island The officials had professed surprise that an island lay out there in the hts around the area all of their professional lives Sil-Chan had provided them with a special channel code, however, and a voice-only communication had ensued, so very obstructive and then, unexplainably helpful