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. Hilda Mac Burroughs, time line four, code 'Ballox O'Malley.'" Hilda
and I exchanged smiles.
"Commander Ted Smith, time line five, code 'DuQuesne.'" Commander Smith was
a square-jawed athlete with ice-blue eyes. He was dressed in an undecorated gray
uniform, carrying a bolstered hand gun, and wearing a bejeweled heavy bracelet.
"Captain John Sterling, time line six, code "Neil Armstrong alternate time
line.'" I looked at my boyhood hero and considered the possibility that I was
asleep and having a vivid dream. Hazel had told me and told me again that the
hero of her space opera was real... but not even the repeated use of the code
phrase "Operation Galactic Overlord" had convinced me... and now here he was:
the foe of the Overlord.
Or was it he? What proof?
"Sky Marshal Samuel Beaux, time line seven, code 'Fair-acre.'" Marshal
Beaux was over two meters tall, massed at least a hundred and ten kilos, all of
it muscle and rhinoceros hide. He was dressed in a midnight black uniform and a
frown, and was as beautiful as a black panther. He stared at me with jungle
eyes.
Lazarus announced, "I declare quorum. The Circle is closed. Dr. Hilda
Burroughs now speaks for the Circle."
Hilda smiled at me and said, "Colonel Campbell, I have been conscripted to
explain to you our purposes and enough of our methods to enable you to see how
the job you are being asked to do fits into the master plan, and why it must be
done
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