I said, "Well, not exactly--"

"But almost exactly? That is, you require this Millen Carmody for your

plan?"

"It wasn't _my_ plan. But you're right about the other."

"Very good." He extended the Handbook to me. "There is here a picture

which calls itself Millen Carmody. Is that the man?"

I glanced at the familiar warm eyes on the frontispiece. "That's right.

Have you seen him?"

"I have, indeed." The shaggy beard was twitching--I did not know

whether with laughter or the coming of tears. "I saw him not long ago,

Weels. It was in what they call Bay 100--you remember? He was in a

little bag like the pasta one carries home from a store. He was quite

sound asleep, Weels, in the shelf just below the one I woke up in."

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