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examined Yourself! Why not? And You're going to call Yourself the GILES because Youare the Grand Tutor." He scribbledRH at the end of the line. "Don't blame You a bit! Darned clever idea, in fact -- help put an end to that Goat-Boy nonsense. There You are, sir!"
Retrieving the two documents I said, "Iam the GILES, Mr. Hector."
"Of course You are!" he cried indignantly. "You've got every right to be! I was trying to tell that daughter of mine just a while ago, when Stacey brought her in all upset: she's got to get that nonsense out of her head --"
"That she's my mother?" I interrupted. "Sheis, Mr. Hector. I'm thereal GILES, that you put in the tapelift twenty-one years ago."
"Ridiculous." He had been looking a rattled and somewhat fatuous old man; now his jaw set, and his eyes flashed in a way that must once have intimidated ranks of junior officers. In fact, the two aides withdrew at once. He was a military-scientist, he told me then curtly, not a fancy-talk politician or a philosopher with thick eyeglasses, and there were plenty of things over his head, he did not doubt: but be flunked if he didn't know a racket
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