"How could he know you'd have a character like Sowles all set to go?" Ev said. "Oh, I get it—precognition. It's fortunate that his crystal ball didn't read as far as the outcome tonight."
"In any case, we'd better get your Pathan over here, and start rebuilding your Gestalt," said Cam. "You won't hear from the Panchen—he's undoubtedly constructing a new, all-Red unit right now. After this bit, psi faculties, including telempathy, have to be considered another weapons family in the Cold War ... a new set of pieces of the big chessboard. So you're going to have to find a substitute for the Himalayan Quiz Kid, and git crackin'."
"I'll consider your application," said Ev, giving his flask the coup de grace; and the lights of L.A. rushed up around them like a huge breaker—gaudy, garish, and beautifully comprehensible.
THE END
Transcribers Notes:
Pages as per magazine. Printer's errors corrected as follows:
Page 61, "veging" to "verging". (hysteria verging on the loss of reason).
Page 62, "Quickly" to "Quickly," to fix endquote punctuation.
Page 63, "expperiments" to "experiments". (esoteric nuclear experiments).