"So I'm a most remarkable case, huh?"
"You are. There seems to be a deep-seated liking for one another that has been barred psychologically by certain factors in your youth. You play chess. You respect one another's property—"
"That's what you say. The other bird just screwed up my dielectric heater to fiddle up a cyclotronic spectrograph."
"Might try putting it to work," observed Hamilton.
"Oh, I will. After all, he can't get ahead of me."
"Then why the outcry?"
"Because who knows what he'll do next."
"He's appropriated things before?"
"Only to the extent of buying books."
"What manner of books?"