"What's the matter, Jim? You should be even more excited than I am." "I'm not very happy about this, Monty," Loudons confessed. "I keep thinking about what's going to happen to them." "Why, nothing's going to happen to them. They're going to be given the means of producing more food, keeping more of them alive, giving them more leisure to develop themselves in--" "Monty, I saw the Sacred Books." "The deuce! What were they?" "It. One volume. A collection of works. We have it at the Fort and I've read it. How I ever missed all those clues--" "You see, Monty, what I'm worried about is what's going to happen to those people when they find out that we're not really Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...." * * * * * End of Project Gutenberg's The Return, by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire