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CHAPTER THREESTRONG ENTERED THEIR JOINT OFFICES the next morning at a precise nine o'clock, as usual. The few who felt able continued slowly to assist the enormous majority who were ill. Anyhow, it doesn't matter, he went on. It's nothing much.

Then he was heading back toward us and I switched my radio back on. Get your hopheads over here. Until some observer traversed interstellar distances at speeds approximating the speed of light and returned to the planet from which he had started there could be no answer. Lazarus reserved his judgment.