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It'scalled a twin Mickey."

  We'd probably have murdered him then and there if the Quack's concoctionhad let us.

  Later on we had to admit that the Quack had actually done us a service,since his identifying the real Haslop saved us from being marooned forlife on Balak. And the Balakians were such an immediate sensation in theTerran Realm that the Quack's part in their admittance made him famousovernight. Somebody high up in Government circles got him out of SolarExploitations field work and gave him a sinecure in an antibioticslaboratory, where he wound up as happy as a pig in a peanut field.

  Which points up the statement I made in the beginning, that one thingyou never have to worry about in Solar Exploitations work is beingbored.

  You see what I mean?