The Number of the Beast

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by Fritz Reuter Leiber


  The Young Captain took some time before he answered. He smiled incredulously more than once, and once he shook his head.

  Finally he said, "And you asked me to go ahead, Scan, and make my accusation, with no more indication than that?"

  "It worked for you, didn't it?" the Old Lieutenant; countered briskly. "And as soon as Fa started to confess, you must have known I was right beyond any possibility of doubt. Telepaths are always truth-tellers." The Young Captain shot him a very strange look. "It couldn't be, Sean—?" he said softly. "It couldn't be that you're a telepath yourself? That that's the alien thought system you've been studying with your Martian witch doctor?"

  "If it were," the Old Lieutenant replied, "I'd tell—" He stopped. He twinkled. "Or would I?"

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