acers take us over."

McCarthy snorted contemptuously. "Ward, you damned fool--"

"That will be all, gentlemen," Allenby said. He did not raise his voice,
but McCarthy was silent and Ward marveled, as he had on other occasions,
at the authority the old man carried.

"Well," McCarthy said after a moment, "what are you going to do about
_this_?" He gestured toward the windows from which shouts still rang.

"Nothing. Let it run its course."

"But you can't do _that_, man!"

"I can and I will. What do you think, John?"

"I agree," Ward said. "They won't hurt each other--they never have yet.
It'll wear itself out and then, tomorrow, we'll try again." He did not
feel optimistic about how things would be the next day, but he didn't
want to voice his fears. "The thing that worries me," he said, "are
those tigers. Where'd they come from?"

"What tigers?" McCarthy wanted to know.

Ward told him.

"First it was cats," McCarthy said, "then birds ... now tigers. Either
you're seeing things or someone's using a concealed projector."

"I thought of the projector, but these seemed real. Stunned at first--as
if they were as surprised as I was."

"You have a teleport in your class," Allenby said.

"Yes--maybe that's the way it was done. I don't know quite what to make
of it," Ward said. If he voiced his real suspicion now, he knew it would
sound silly. "I know some of them can teleport. I've seen them. Small
things, of course...."

"Not in _my_ classes," McCarthy said indignantly. "I absolutely forbid
that sort of thing."

"You do wrong, then," Allenby said.

"It's unscientific!"

"Perhaps. But we want to encourage whatever wild talents they possess."

"So that they can materialize tigers in--in our bedrooms, I suppose.
Well, I've had enough. Stay here and stew if you like, but I'm going
back to my class. I turned the hypno-gas on them before I took my dive.
They should be nice and gentle for me by this time." He turned away
defiantly.

"I know how you feel," Allenby said when McCarthy was gone. "He's a holy
terror, John. Shouldn't be around here. But I have to keep him, since he
was recommended by the 3Rs and the Educational League. He gives the
school a bit of protective coloration. Perhaps he's why they haven't
closed us down yet."

"I know--I'm not blaming you. Do you suppose we can go back to our jobs?
It sounds as if it's wearing itself out." He gestured up at the windows.

"Can't do anything more today."