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Show Dr'Anya nodded. "Aye, thou'rt full right," she said. "But how dost thou know of such things, thou a member of the yeofolk?" "Oh," Belinda answered. "I am not of the yeofolk " She was interrupted by Dr'Igor who rushed in the equipment shed door and then collapsed against a barrel. "Belinda!" he gasped. "Aye? Aye?" She started up, alarmed, and ran to him. "The Governor," Dr'Igor gasped, "has naught but the operating system left!" "What! What sayest thou?" she said, helping him to the pile of saddles. "The memory! " he wailed, dropping into a heap. "The entire memory has been erased!" Belinda looked at him, stupified. "Erased? 'Tis impossible!" "But nay, 'tis gone! The Mole, that unspeakable idiot, he has pulled some inutterable gaff and has erased the entire memory!" In his sleep, Phrapp turned over and smiled. Dr'Igor put his head in his hands. "And there is no wight in the whole of BauerWorlde able to reprogram the system!" Phrapp's eyes fluttered open at that point. "What?" he said slowly: wide awake. "What was that?" 315 |