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ominous sort of fibrillation, warning of worse to come?) I
went in and sat down trying fervently to look cool.

"Four-spot"Чwithout turning to me yetЧ"exactly what
is that thing up in the lead-box?"

I cleared my throat; he has that effect on me. "I realizeЧ

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1 mean obviously I am assigned to ozone. But I wasn't
getting anywhereЧat least I couldn'tЧ It's very difficult
to plan experiments that won't take longer than eight months
and approximately two weeks."

"Nonsense," he bluffed, swinging around to face me.
"No one can predict your future with that kind of accu-
racy."

"Excuse me, sir, but Pokey can. It was the first thing I
did when I took him over from Three. 1 put in a whole new
med. eval. system. It's been testing for a year, ninety-eight
percent accurate."

He rubbed his eyes. His face is warped by lack of sleep,
so he too knows there isn't much time. "I've been
concentrating on the ELS problem, developing a new
antigeriatrone that looks promising, except for a few un-
acceptable side effects Never mind that. If you haven't
been working on ozone, what is that gadget upstairs? What's
it good for, other than mouse eradication?"

He was going to hate this, so I said. it fast and all in one
breath. "It's a time refractor. The test subject you saw had
just taken a fast turn around 198L"

Eddinger absorbed that, got very angry and spent thirty
seconds putting a cork in it. "All that bustness you fed me
about needing elbow room, working better unsupervisedЧ
I knew I shouldn't have given in, but I did. And this is how
you repay me? To waste precious months building a toy to
go joynding?"

"Number Three didn't think of it as a toy- She's the one
who developed the technology," I told him. Number Three
had been Eddinger's favorite; if anything could soften him
up, it would be the cassette tape in the pocket of my lab

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