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"Reactions?" His Holiness demanded.

"Does he offer any proof?"

"Not the slightest," His Holiness said in exasperation. "Only the message that
I've just read you. We've checked the Public Information Bank, but there's no
'Rod Gallowglass ' listed. The planet is listed, though, and the coordinates match
the ones McAran gives. But it was only discovered ten years ago." He passed a
faxsheet across the desk to Father Al.

Father Al read, and frowned. "The discovery is credited to a Rodney d'Armand.
Could it be the same man?"

The Pope threw up his hands. "Why not? Anything is possibleтАФand nothing
probable, when you've so little information. But we checked his PIB bio. He's a
younger son of a cadet branch of an aristocratic house on a large asteroid called
'Maxima.' He had a short but varied career in the space services, culminating in
his enlistment in the Society for the Conversion of Extra-terrestrial Nascent
TotalitarianismsтАж"

"The what?"

"I don't think I could say it again," His Holiness sighed. "It seems to be a sort of
government bureau that combines the worst aspects of both exploration and
espionage. Its agents are supposed to seek out the Lost Colonies, decide whether
or not their government is headed towards democracy and, if it's not, put it onto
a path that will eventually evolve a democracy."

"Fantastic," Father Al murmured. "I didn't even know we had such a bureau."

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"Any government that's overseeing three-score worlds should have a bureau that
just keeps track of all the other bureaus." His Holiness spoke from personal
experience.