ik is greatly to be censured
for ordering it stopped and for failing to report this anticipation
effect."

"We'll consult about the inquiry, including the experiment, tomorrow,
Your Highness," Tammsan told Travann.

Paul rose, and everybody rose with him. "That being the case, you
gentlemen are all excused. The students' procession ought to be
arriving, now, and I want to tell them what's going to be done. Prince
Travann, Count Tammsan; do you care to accompany me?"

* * * * *

Going up to the central terrace in front of the Octagon Tower, he turned
to Count Tammsan.

"I notice you laughed at that remark of mine about Aditya," he said.
"Have you met the First Citizen?"

"Only on screen, sir. He was at me for about an hour, this morning. It
seems that they are reforming the educational system on Aditya. On
Aditya, everything gets reformed every ten years, whether it needs it or
not. He came here to find somebody to take charge of the reformation."

He stopped short, bringing the others to a halt beside him, and laughed
heartily.

"Well, we'll send First Citizen Yaggo away happy; we'll make him a
present of the most distinguished educator on Odin."

"Khane?" Tammsan asked.

"Khane. Isn't it wonderful; if you have a few problems, you have
trouble, but if you have a whole lot of problems, they start solving
each other. We get a chance to get rid of Khane and create a vacancy
that can be filled by somebody big enough to fill it; the Ministry of
Education gets out from under a nasty situation; First Citizen Yaggo
gets what he thinks he wants----"

"And if I know Khane and if I know the People's Commonwealth of Aditya,
it won't be a year before Yaggo has Khane shot or stuffs him into jail,
and then the Space Navy will have an excuse to visit Aditya, and
Aditya'll never be the same afterward," Prince Travann added.

The students massed on the front lawns were still cheering as they went
down after addressing them. The Security Guards were conspicuously
absent and it was a detail of red-kilted Thoran riflemen who met them as
they entered the hall to the Session Chamber. Prince Ganzay approached,
attended by two Household Guard officers, a human and a Thoran. Count
Tammsan looked from one to the other of his companions, bewildered. The
bewildering thing was that everything was as it should be.

"Well, gentlemen," Paul said, "I'm sure that both of you will want to
confer for a moment