"Eh? By Lenin, what are you doing here Archevski? Am I going crazy? I thought I sent you to find this, uh—Barwan."
"You did, Comrade Marshal, but—"
"But I told him not to," said Dorlup.
"You? What for? Ruscar wanted him brought at once."
"I know that," said Dorlup.
"But the Comrade Premier told me not to go, anyway. Then Comrade Premier further told me that Ruscar had concluded his usefulness after we had Stalin's resurrected brain. The Comrade Premier—"
"Let him talk for himself, Archevski! And I'll see you later for disobeying my orders."
"No you won't."
"He's in my employ now," Dorlup told Chenkov. "What he was saying is this: why do we need Ruscar? Let Ruscar go back where he came from. We can handle everything ourselves."
"Georgi, you don't mean it."