much sense, does it?"

Her mouth tightened. "I'm not going to say anything more until Daddy gets
here, anyway," she said.

Which was when the phone rang.

"I have an idea that's for me," Steve said.

The screen lit up and LaVerne Polk said, "Call for Steve Hackett, Larry."

Larry pushed the phone around so Steve could look into it. LaVerne flicked
off and was replaced by a stranger in uniform. Steve said, "Yeah?"

The cop said, "He's flown the coop, sir. Must have got out just minutes
before we arrived. Couldn't have taken more than a suitcase. Few papers
scattered around the room he used for an office."

Susan gasped, "You mean Daddy?"

Steve Hackett rubbed a hand over his flattened nose. "Holy Smokes," he
said. He thanked the cop and flicked off.

Larry said, "Look Zusanette, everything's going to be all right. Nothing
will happen to you. You say you managed to pick up two packets of all this
money they have at headquarters. O.K. So you thought it wouldn't be missed
and you've always wanted to spend money the way you see the stars do on
TriD and in the movies."

She looked at him, taken back. "How did you know?"

Larry said dryly, "I've always wanted to myself. But I would like to know
one more thing. The Movement. What was it going to do with all this
money?"

That evidently puzzled her. "The Professor said they were going to spend
it on chorus girls. I guess ... I guess he was joking or something. But
Daddy and I'd just been up to New York and we saw those famous precision
dancers at the New Roxy Theatre and all and then when we got back the
Professor and Daddy were talking and I heard him say it."

Steve said, carefully, "Professor who?"

Susan said, "Just the Professor. That's all we ever call him." Her chin
went to trembling still again.

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Larry summed it up for the Boss later.

His chief scoffed his disbelief. "The child is full of dreams, Lawrence.
It comes from seeing an over-abundance of these TriD shows. I have a girl
the same age. I don't know what is happening to the country. They have no
sense of reality."

Larry Woolford said mildly, "Well, she might be full of nonsense, but she
did have the fifties, and she's our only connection with whoever printed
them whether it's a movement to overthrow the government, or what."

The Boss said tolerantly, "Movement, indeed. Obviously, her father
produced them and she purloined a quantity