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. Then, when they spot the tick at which the
Overlord or whoever started watching THQ, back off some and evacuate. Loop and
patch, and they'll never suspect that we outflanked them. I told Deety; she
thinks it could work. What do you think?"
"I think it will. Let me get your mother on line and we'll introduce it.
Dora, let me have Elizabeth again, please." Nothing in his face or manner
suggested that he had just spoken to Libby Long, proposing what was (so far as I
could see) the same plan.
"Elizabeth? A message from our table tennis champ. Jane Libby says to place
that rosette at minus ten years, spike first surveillance, then go back-oh, say,
three years-evacuate, squeeze off a loop and patch in. Both Deety and I think it
will work. Please submit it to the panel, credited to Jane Ell, with Deety's
vote and mine noted."
"And my vote."
"You have smart children, mistress mine."
"Comes of picking smart fathers, sir. And good ones. Good to his offspring,
good to his wives. Off?"
"Off." Burroughs added, to the girl waiting, "Your parents are proud of
you, Janie. I predict that the maths section will produce a unanimous report in
the next few minutes. You have answered the objection Lazarus raised-his quite
legitimate objection-by producing a solution under which it does not matter who
did this to us; we can repair it safely without knowing who did it
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