ingenuity”

soon forget Northroyal. . . . 
“ . . . magnificent ingenuity,” someone was saying. “You must have assimilated your indoctrination on the background unusually thoroughly to have been able to prepare in advance just those artifacts and documents which would prove most essential. And the technical skill in the production itself. Remarkable. To think that you were able to hoodwink the high priests of the cult in the very sanctum sanctorum.”
“Merely the result of careful research,” Retief said modestly. “I found all I needed on late developments, buried in our files. The making of the Signet was quite a piece of work; but credit for that goes to our own technicians.”
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