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"Very well, suppose you tell "

"Doodlebug?" The adave a faint tilt to his head-a movement equivalent to stunned surprise in any otherinstrument I assume you're familiar with its purpose"

"Why don't you tell me?"

Sandecker shrugged "I guess you could say it's a kind of water dowser"

"Water dowsers don't cost six hundred and eighty million taxpayer dollars"

"What exactly do you want to know?""

"Does such an exotic instrument exist?"

"The Doodlebug Project is a reality, and a daht add"

"Are you prepared to explain its operation and account for the money spent on its development?"

"When?"

"At the earliest opportunity"

"Givein your lap neatly wrapped and packaged"

Mercier was not to be taken in "Two days"

"I knohat you'

re thinking," said Sandecker earnestly "But I promise you there is no fear of scandal, far froether in less"