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"One of the real eggheads!" Trigger smiled nervously. "And then I just took off! They can't have too good an opinion of me at the moment, you know." "Apparently that didn't upset them in the least," the Commissioner said. "They told me to stay calm and make sure you got to Manon all right.
"It probably is," Quillan admitted. "Everything seems to be, right now. I've given up trying to keep up with that. Anyway I don't know that she has. Neither does the Commissioner. But he's worried. And Argee has a date she doesn't know about with the Psychology Service, four days from now." "The eggheads?" Mihul was startled. "What do they want with her?"
They have many tricks here. They are big brains, eggheads, all of them with their favorite gadgets. They put you through a machine to get you registered on a tape. Then, my boy, you cannot get outside the base without ringing all the alarms! Neat, eh? So if you want to make a break, you must try it before they tape you." Ross did not trust Kurt, but he was listening to him attentively.
He had a real problem now. We've bought a little time, he thought. A little time to grow in. We've bought a little time from the fanatics and their statesmen, from the eggheads and their politicians, from the military and the industrial and the just generally foolhardy. We, the people of the world, have a little time now that we didn't have yesterday. How much? He didn't know.
Or at least help explain it." He nodded. "And the people who've been trying to grab me very probably are doing it for exactly the same reason." He nodded again. "That's almost certain." "Do you think the eggheads might already have figured out what the connection is?" The Commissioner shook his head. "If they had, we'd be doing something about it. The Federation Council is very nervous!"
"Old Doc Leeharvis was handling the hypnosis herself. She hit what she thought might be a mind-block when she tried to get you to remember what happened. We know now it wasn't a mind-block. But she wouldn't monkey with you any farther, and told me to get in an expert. So I called the Psychology Service's headquarters on Orado." Trigger looked startled, then laughed. "The eggheads?
"I've heard," she said, "the eggheads have terrific pull when they want to use it. You don't hear much about them otherwise. Let me think just a little." "Go ahead," said Holati. A minute ticked away. "What it boils down to so far," Trigger said then, "is still pretty much what you told me on Maccadon. The Psychology Service thinks I know something that might help clean up the plasmoid problem.
Perhaps this was the shipful of scientific eggheads that Brucco was expecting; he hoped so. It would be a pleasant treat to have a conversation with someone about a topic more universal than the bore dimensions of guns. With practiced eye he watched the landing which was a little sloppy, either a new pilot or an old one who didn't care much. It was a small ship so not many people would be aboard.
"Why don't you pick a slum we can clean up for not too much, and let's see what you can work out. This cleanup theme isn't bad, it's just peace on earth that doesn't really belong to us you know. "I tell you what. We'll go to fifty thousand dollars or so on a cleanup job, and you use that. Leave the world to the politicians and the eggheads."
The fanatics and their statesmen, the eggheads and their politicians, the brains and the brain trusts and the world-weary they're for burning, but not the witches. Which witch is a witch? Doesn't matter. An hour later, Bill Howard sat down to the typewriter again.
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