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Damned if I know. And I do notknow how that can be done, with youths their age. Their influence,though mostly not apparent, was becoming ubiquitous on Splenn, whileoffworld they were covertly connected to the highest levels ofConfederation government. How sure are you of this? he asked.

You hear them, don't you? He did. Instead he went with Fossur to theintelligence chief's office, where they discussed how to insert troopers intoKomars as agitators. A strange nobility, he thought silently, without sufficient pride tomark their offspring. In the terminal, Mauen had come into the reception area from the glassedviewing deck.