Chapter 48

  On seeing the approaching old man, the whole crowd was stirred up. This was the Dr. Archer everybody mused over, and just like they thought, he really met up to the descriptions.

  He walked with his hands behind his back, and his head raised in the disposition of an expert. Despite the ruckus the crowd was making, he did not even feel the least disturbed. He walked slowly, as though extremely conscious of where to place his foot next, to the platform where those who had just finished Stage 3 were stationed.

  After shaking his head slightly,  Anderson quickly asked Enboe-21 if the features of this man matched what they'd seen in Time.

  “Positive,” Enboe-21 replied in an undertone.

  Nodding his head, Anderson commanded, “Give instructions to the bird of Jove, we begin now.”

  Without drawing any attention to themselves, Enboe-21 closed its eyes and sent a telepathic message to the bird of Jove, t