"I hope so," the colonel said. "Just what is it that seems to be bothering you?" "These drawings," Davenport said, "don't make any sense. The device they're supposed to represent couldn't do anything. Look; I'll show you." He took from his brief case photostatic copies of some of the drawings Lenny had made. Five of them were straight blueprint-type drawings; the sixth was a copy of Lenny's near-photographic paintings of the device itself. "This component, here," he said, gesturing at the set of drawings, "simply baffles us. We're of the opinion that your agents are known to the Soviet government and have been handed a set of phony plans." "What's it supposed to do?" Lenny asked. "We don't know what it's _supposed_ to do," the scientist said, "but it's doubtful that it would _actually_ do anything." He selected one of the photocopies. "See that thing? The one shaped like the letter Q with an offset tail? According to the specifications, it is supposed to be painted emerald green, but there's no indication of what it is." * * * * * Lenny Poe reached out, picked up the photocopy and looked at it. It was--or had been--an exact copy of the drawing that was used by Dr. Sonya Malekrinova. But, whereas the original drawing has been labeled entirely in Cyrillic characters, these labels were now in English. The drawings made no sense to Lenny at all. They hadn't when he'd made them. His brother was a scientist, but Lenny understood none of it. "Who translated the Russian into English?" he asked. "A Mr. Berensky. He's one of our best experts on the subject. I assure you the translations are accurate, Dr. Davenport said. "But if you don't know what that thing is," the colonel objected, "how can you say the device won't work? Maybe it would if that Q-shaped thing was--" "I know what you mean," Davenport interrupted. "But that's not the only part of the machine that doesn't make any sense." He went on to explain other discrepancies he had detected in the drawings, but none of it penetrated to Lenny, although Colonel Spaulding seemed to be able to follow the physicist's conversation fairly readily. "Well, what's you suggestion, doctor?" the colonel asked at last. "If you agents could get further data," the physicist said carefully, "it might be of some use. At the same time, I'd check up on the possibility that your agents are known to the NKVD." "I'll see what can be done," said the colonel. "Would you mind leaving those copies of the drawings with me for a while?" "Go right ahead," Davenport said. "One other thing. If we assume this device is genuine, then it must serve some purpose. It might help if we knew what the device is supposed to _do_." "I'll see what can be done," Colonel Spaulding repeated. When Davenport had gone, Spaulding looked at Poe. "Got any explanation for that one?"