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基地系列:第二基地|Second Foundation

第三章 同谋|Chapter 3

属类： 双语小说 【分类】魔幻小说 -[作者: 艾萨克-阿西莫夫] 阅读：[9546]
《第二基地》是“基地”系列三部曲的最后一部。“谜”一般的第二基地的存在成了众矢之的，骡要铲除它，而第一基地的移民为了一个完全不同的理由也必须找到它，但是它究竟在哪里呢？这部故事就是各方人马找寻第二基地的传奇。骡倾全力寻找并铲除第二基地，却失败了。随后，基地人员也千方百计寻找第二基地，因为他们不愿把建立新帝国的功业拱手让人。谁也没想到，寻找的线索竟维系在一位小女孩身上。十四岁的艾嘉蒂娅怕得要死，她究竟发现了有关第二基地的什么秘密呢？
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达瑞尔博士与裴礼斯·安索两人，最近几天都过着悠闲的生活，白天优哉游哉地无所事事，晚间则忙着跟朋友交际应酬。偶尔有一些访客前来，达瑞尔博士便会为来客介绍，说这个年轻人是他的表弟，来自太空中遥远的另一端。经过这番介绍，大家便不再对安索的出现感到突兀。

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当他们两人闲聊的时候，偶尔会提及某个人的名字，接下来就是一阵沉思，然后达瑞尔博士有时会说“不”，有时会说“好”。如果他说“好”的话，便会用通讯波打一通电话，向对方提出一个很普通的邀请：“有没有兴趣见见我的表弟？”

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艾嘉蒂娅自己则另有一番打算，而且有条不紊地一步步开始进行。事实上，她的行动可说是相当地曲折迂回。比如说，她为了计划的需要，因而设计引诱同班的丸里萨斯·旦，让他心甘情愿地献出自制的集音器。由她所使用的那些方法，就可以知道将来与她接触的所有男性，全都注定逃不过她的手掌心。简单地说，由于丸里萨斯常爱吹嘘自己的课余嗜好——他有一间私人实验室，喜欢自己动手做这做那，她就故意表现出对丸里萨斯这项嗜好的兴趣，并且巧妙地将兴趣渐渐转移到丸里萨斯的矮胖身材上。结果这位不幸的傻小子，便发现自己在不知不觉间做了下列几件事：（一）滔滔不绝地讲了一大堆超波电动机的原理；（二）迷上了轻轻盯着自己的那双又大又亮的眸子；（三）将自己最伟大的杰作——前面提到的那台集音器——放进了艾嘉蒂娅伸出的双手中。

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事后，艾嘉蒂娅便开始对丸里萨斯随意敷衍，渐渐地与他疏远。她做得恰到好处，不使他怀疑到集音器是这段友谊的惟一原因。前后有好几个月的时间，丸里萨斯在心中反复咀嚼那段短暂的欢乐时光，可是由于从此毫无进展，最后他也只好放弃，让这段初恋从生命中悄悄溜走。

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裴礼斯·安索抵达之后的第七天晚上，有五位男士聚在达瑞尔家的客厅中，大家都吃得酒足饭饱，正在那里吞云吐雾。而在楼上，艾嘉蒂娅则坐在书桌旁边，桌上摆着那个丸里萨斯自制的杰作——最不像集音器的一台集音器。

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客厅中的五个人当然包括达瑞尔博士，他的头发花白，穿着讲究，虽然只有四十二岁，看起来却比实际年龄大一些。裴礼斯·安索此时表情严肃，眼神游移不定，看来年轻而没有自信。此外还有三位从未出场的角色——裘尔·屠博是新闻幕播报员，身材高大、嘴唇肥厚；爱维特·瑟米克是某大学物理系的退休教授，骨瘦如柴又满脸皱纹，衣服里面好像还有很多空隙；侯密尔·孟恩是一名图书馆馆员，他的身材瘦长，总是带着一副惴惴不安的表情。

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此时达瑞尔博士开始说话，他的口气轻松而自然：“各位先生，这场聚会除了社交目的之外，还有一点其他的原因，我想你们也都已经猜到了。由于各位的特殊背景，才会被我们精挑细选出来，大家应该不难猜出其中牵涉到的危险。我不会故作轻松，可是我也要指出一点，我们几个无论如何是无法脱身了。”

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“想必你们也已经注意到，我对各位的邀请都是光明正大的，没有请任何一位偷偷摸摸前来。我家的窗户未设定成空无一人的假相，房间的周围也没有任何防盗幕。因为一旦让敌人起疑，我们就注定完蛋。而最可能引人注目的做法，就是凡事过度神秘兮兮，结果反倒弄得欲盖弥彰。”

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（哈，艾嘉蒂娅在心中暗笑。她俯身靠在书桌旁，仔细听着集音器发出有些尖锐的声音。）

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“这点各位能了解吗？”

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爱维特·瑟米克接口说道：“噢，请言归正传吧，告诉我们，这个年轻人究竟是谁。”他在每讲一句话之前，下唇总会先抽动一下，脸上挤出更多的皱纹，并且露出整排的牙齿。

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达瑞尔博士回答：“他名叫裴礼斯·安索，是我的老同事克莱斯的学生。我这位老同事在去年过世。他在去世之前几天，曾经将安索的详细脑波图样——从第一阶到第五阶——寄了一份给我。我将他寄来的那些图样，与你们面前这位男士的脑波做过比对，当然，你们都应该知道，脑波图样不可能伪造到第五阶，连心理科学专家也无法做到这一点。如果你们不熟悉这个事实，就必须相信我的话。”

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屠博撅着嘴说道：“我们最好进入正题吧。我们会相信你的话，克莱斯既然已经过世，如今你就是银河中最权威的神经电学家。至少，我在新闻幕中对你的评价就是如此，我自己也相信这一点。你今年多大，安索？”

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“二十九岁，屠博先生。”

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“嗯——你也是一位神经电学家？也是权威？”

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“我只能算是一个学生，不过我工作得非常努力，而且有幸能接受克莱斯博士的指导。”

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此时孟恩插进一句话：“我……我希望你们能开……开始讲正经事。我认为大家的话都说……说得太多了。”他在紧张的时候总会有点口吃。

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达瑞尔博士对孟恩扬了扬眉毛，回答他说：“你说得对，侯密尔……裴礼斯，你接着说吧。”

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“现在还不能说，”裴礼斯·安索缓缓地答道，“虽然我很同意孟恩先生的意见，但是在我们开始讨论正题之前，我必须要求各位提供脑波数据。”

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达瑞尔皱着眉头说：“怎么回事，安索？你指的是什么脑波数据？”

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“你们每一个人的脑波图样。你已经测过我的脑波，达瑞尔博士，现在我也必须测定你们每个人的脑波，而且我得亲自进行。”

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屠博说：“他没有理由相信我们，达瑞尔，这个年轻人有权利这么做。”

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“谢谢你。”安索说，“那么，达瑞尔博士，就请你带路到你的实验室去吧，我们说做就做。今天早上，我已经冒昧地检查过你的设备了。”

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脑电图分析可说是最尖端的科学，也可以算是一门很古老的学问。说它古老的原因，是由于生物神经细胞能产生微弱电流的事实，属于那些来源早已不可考的人类文化遗产之一。勉强追溯的话，它似乎在人类历史的最早期便已存在……

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然而它也是最新的科学——在银河帝国上万年的历史中，神经电流的现象一直未曾受到重视，仅被视为奇妙有趣的一项常识，大多数的人都认为它没有任何用处。有人曾经试图将脑波分类，例如分成行走与睡眠、冷静与激动、健康与否等等。不过即使是最粗略的分类法，也难免会有一大堆例外出现。

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此外，还有人想要证明脑波也像众所周知的血型一样，可以分为几种不同的类型。这些人认为对于脑波分类而言，外在的因素并没有决定性的影响。提倡这种理论的人多少具有一点种族偏见，认为人类可以根据脑波而区分成数个“亚种”。然而，在银河帝国普遍性的强势意识形态之下，这种学说当然无法获得任何实质进展。别忘了当年的帝国是泛银河的一统政体，囊括了两千万个星系，从川陀这个中央世界（它辉煌伟大的过去，如今已埋葬在历史的灰烬中），到银河外缘任何一颗孤独的小行星，银河中每一个人类都是帝国的子民。

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此外，在一个专注于物理科学与机械科技发展的社会中，例如当年的第一银河帝国，自然会产生一种无形的强大阻力，反对心灵方面的研究。由于看不见立即的应用，精神科学普遍受到鄙视，而且因为它没有什么效益，所以研究经费也一直少得可怜。

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第一帝国崩溃之后，各种科学也都遭到解体的命运，一直衰退，衰退，衰退到了连基本的核能都被遗忘，而只懂得使用煤炭与石油的化学能。当然，其中有一个例外，那就是第一基地——它延续了科学的薪传，保持了科技的火种，并且能够继续发扬光大。只不过在第一基地上，仍旧出现了物理科学独领风骚的局面。对于人类脑部的研究，除了外科手术之外，其他依旧是从未开发的处女地。

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哈里·谢顿是第一个指出精神科学重要性的人，他下面的这番话被后人奉为真理：“神经微电流承载着人类所有的反应与冲动——包括意识与潜意识两者。在方格纸上记录的脑波图样，看来只是颤颤巍巍、起伏不已的波峰与波谷，事实上，却能够反映出数十亿细胞的思考脉动。对于脑波图样进行分析研究，理论上可以揭示任何微小的思想与情感。除了先天或后天的肉体缺陷造成的差异之外，无形因素引发的脑波变化也应该侦测得出来，包括情绪的转变、不同的教育与经历，甚至受测者的人生哲学这种微妙的因素。”

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然而即使是谢顿，当年所能做的也仅止于臆测而已。

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而在过去五十年间，第一基地的科学家终于开启了一个崭新的知识宝库。当然，他们的研究方法能够获得突破，主要还是拜先进科技之赐。例如最新发展的一种技术，能让电极穿过颅缝而直接与脑细胞接触，根本无需剃掉一根毛发。此外，新发明的装置可以自动记录脑波数据，不但可以做综合性的记录，还能够自动将六个独立变数分离出来。

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不过最有意义的发展，也许应该算是脑电图科学与脑电图学者日渐受到重视。克莱斯曾经是这门科学的个中翘楚，当他参加学术会议的时候，完全可以跟物理学家平起平坐。而达瑞尔博士虽然不再活跃于科学界，可是他对脑波分析所做的卓越贡献，早已使他声名大噪。虽然他的母亲是贝妲·达瑞尔——上一代最伟大的女英雄，不过达瑞尔博士的名气只有一半是基于这个事实，另一半则是源自他本身的成就。

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现在，达瑞尔博士坐在自己实验室的躺椅上，感觉到轻柔的电极似有若无地接触着头颅。在此同时，密闭于真空容器内的指针开始前后摆动，不过他却没有办法看见，因为他正背对着记录器——根据众所周知的事实，如果受测者看到那些跃动的曲线，潜意识便会想要控制它们的变化，因而引起不可忽略的误差。不过达瑞尔博士心里非常清楚，中央刻度盘显示的是极为规律、仅有小幅变化的曲线。因为他的心灵强健而训练有素，这是绝对可以预期的结果。输出的讯号经过放大与过滤之后，便能在另一个刻度盘上显示小脑的脑波。此外，自额叶发出的脑波，有着尖锐而几近不连续的跳跃；而表层区域的脑波，频率范围比较狭窄，不会有什么剧烈的振荡……

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他对自己的脑波图样了若指掌，就像艺术家对自己的眼珠颜色一清二楚一样。

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当达瑞尔从躺椅上起身时，裴礼斯·安索没有发表任何评语。他只是仔细研究那七条曲线，迅速而毫无遗漏地一路看下去。从这些看似没有任何意义的记录中，他却能够明察秋毫，知道自己应该找寻什么。

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“下面我想请瑟米克博士。”

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瑟米克蜡黄的老脸显得十分严肃。脑电图分析是一门新进的科学，他知道得相当有限，因此对这门新兴学科没有什么好感。他明白自己已经上了年纪，而脑波图样也会反映出这个事实。当然，他的脸上满布皱纹、走路弯腰驼背、两手不时颤抖，都使他显得老态龙钟。不过那些都只是生理现象，可是脑波图样却会证明他连心灵都已老化。他最后的一道防线——他自己的心灵，如今眼看也要被人攻破，使他感到困窘不已而万分不愿。

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电极很快就安置好了，整个过程从头到尾都极为顺利，当然一点痛楚都没有。电极只会带来极微弱的刺激，远远低于人体感觉的阀值。

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接下来轮到屠博，在整整十五分钟的过程中，他安稳地坐在躺椅上，没有表现出任何不适。最后轮到孟恩，电极才刚刚碰触到他，他就吓得抽搐了一下，一对眼珠骨碌碌地转个下停，好像想把眼珠转到后面，透过后脑勺去观察测量的过程。

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“现在你该满意了吧。”当一切结束之后，达瑞尔说道。

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“现在还言之过早，”安索带着歉意答道：“这房子里还有一个人。”

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达瑞尔皱着眉头说：“你是指我女儿？”

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“没错，你可记得，我请她今晚留在家里。”

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“为了做脑电图分析？老天，你到底为什么要这样做？”

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“我一定要做，否则一切都无法进行。”

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达瑞尔耸耸肩，便向楼梯方向走了过去。艾嘉蒂娅早已听到这些对话，当达瑞尔走进她房间时，她及时把集音器关掉，然后乖乖跟着父亲下楼。当她还是婴儿的时候，曾经接受过基本的心灵型样测定，用来作为身份登记之用。除此之外，这是她生平第一次被那么多电极插在头上。

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测量结束之后，她伸出手来问道：“我可以看看吗？”

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达瑞尔博士说：“你看不懂的，艾嘉蒂娅。你是不是该去睡觉了？”

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“是的，爸爸。”她装模作样地说，“晚安，各位叔叔伯伯。”

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她赶紧跑上楼，以最快的动作换好衣服，然后立刻跳到床上去。她把丸里萨斯的集音器放在枕头旁边，感到了从未有过的兴奋，觉得自己好像是胶卷书中的人物，正在从事一项机密的“谍报活动”。

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她在床上听到的第一句话，是安索所说的：“各位先生，所有的分析都很正常，那个孩子也没有问题。”

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“孩子”——她满肚子不高兴，在黑漆漆的屋子里对安索做了一个鬼脸。

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此时安索已经将他的手提箱打开，从里面抽出了数十份脑波记录。这些记录都并非原件，不过手提箱用的仍是一种特制的锁。别人即使拿到了钥匙，开启的时候也会触动机关，使内部的资料立刻氧化成无法辨识的灰烬。现在虽然由安索亲手取出，这些记录半小时后也会自动化成灰。

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在这短短半小时中，安索争取时间迅速说道：“这些记录属于安纳克瑞昂的几个小官吏，这个是卢奎斯大学的心理学家，这是西维纳的一位实业家，其他的不用我再介绍了。”

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大家全都挤成一团，不过只有达瑞尔看得出那些记录中的意义。其他人所看到的，只是印在羊皮纸上的许多颤动波纹而已。

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安索轻轻指着其中一处，对众人说：“达瑞尔博士，请注意看那些额叶次级波纹，请你注意对应的高原区域，这些记录都有这个共同特点。你要不要用我的分析尺，来检查一下我的说法？”

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安索拿着的那把分析尺，跟幼儿园学童使用的对数式计算尺，其实勉强可以算是远亲——就好像摩天大楼跟小茅屋也扯得上关系一样。达瑞尔接过分析尺，以熟练的手法操作着，再徒手将测量的结果画出来。正如安索所说的，额叶部分的脑波有一个平缓的高原，可是照理说它应该是振荡强烈的曲线。

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“你要如何解释这个现象，达瑞尔博士？”安索问道。

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“我不能确定。在没有做进一步的研究之前，我不知道怎么可能有这种结果。即使是严重的失忆症，也应该只能造成压抑的效应，而并非使波纹消除。也许，是动过脑部的大手术？”

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“噢，有什么东西被切掉了。”安索不耐烦地大叫，“对！但并不是什么有形的手术。你可知道，当年的骡也有办法做到这一点，他可以将他人心中某些情感或心意完全压抑，使得对应的脑波变为一条直线。或者……”

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“或者第二基地也能够做得到，是不是？”屠博问道，同时缓缓露出了一个笑容。

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他所问的那一句“是不是？”，其实根本没有必要回答。

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“你怎么会开始注意到这些的，安索先生？”孟恩问道。

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“不是我，是克莱斯博士。他一生致力于搜集脑波图样，就像行星警察做的一样，只不过对象不同，他专门搜集知识分子、政府官员、商界领袖的脑波。你知道，如果第二基地掌控着银河的历史发展——也就是我们的发展，他们就必须进行得很巧妙，而且会将干预的程度尽量减到最小，这是很明显的一件事。假如他们用的是控制他人心灵的方法——事实上也必然如此，那么，选取的心灵一定是具有影响力的人士，包括文化界、工商界、政治界，因此克莱斯博士对这些人特别注意。”

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“哦，”孟恩反驳道，“可是有确实的证据吗？这些人有什么反常的行为——我是说脑波中出现高原的那些人？也许这是一种完全正常的现象。”他心虚地环顾四周，用他那双带点稚气的蓝眼睛看了看其他人，可是却没见到一丝鼓励的眼神。

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“我把这个问题留给达瑞尔博士回答。”安索说，“你可以问问他，在他那么多年的研究生涯中，或是在过去一代的学术报告文献里，这种现象他曾经见过多少次？然后你还可以问问他，在克莱斯博士所研究的样本中，平均每一千人出现一个这样的例子，几率又是多少？”

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“这些都是被外力改造过的精神状态，”达瑞尔以深思熟虑的口气说：“这一点我想是毫无疑问的。他们的心灵全部都受到了干扰，就某一方面而言，我怀疑这个……”

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“我知道，达瑞尔博士，”安索说，“我也知道你曾经与克莱斯博士共事过，我希望知道你为何会半途退出。”

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这个问题其实并没有任何敌意，动机也许纯粹出于谨慎，可是无论如何，却造成了好一阵子的沉默。达瑞尔轮流瞪视着每一位客人，最后终于坦率地说：“因为克莱斯的长期奋战根本毫无意义，他的对手比他强太多了。他想证明的事实，是我们——他和我——心知肚明的一件事，那就是我们只是别人的傀儡。可是，我却不希望知道这个真相！我有我的自尊，我宁愿相信基地是其自身成员的真正领袖，而我们的祖先前仆后继，并不是平白无故地牺牲。我不敢面对现实，而最简单的办法就是不要再继续钻研下去，只要我自己不确定，心里就不会感到那么痛苦。我并不需要那个职位，政府赠与家母的永久俸禄，足以照顾我一家简单的生活，我的私人实验室可以帮我打发时间，而日子总有过完的一天……可是现在克莱斯死了……”

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瑟米克又先露出了整排牙齿，然后说道：“那个叫克莱斯的家伙，我不认识他，他究竟是怎么死的？”

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安索插嘴道：“他就是死了。他早已预见自己的死期，半年多以前，他就告诉我自己渐渐接近……”

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“而我们现在也接……接近了，对不对？”孟恩问道。他感到口干舌燥，喉结不停地上下微动。

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“没错，”安索以平板的语气答道，“可是无论如何，我们——我们大家——早就命中注定了，这就是我们请各位前来密商的原因。我自己是克莱斯的学生，达瑞尔博士曾经是他的同僚。裘尔·屠博曾在广播节目中，公然抨击我们对于第二基地的盲目依赖，最后终于被政府革职——也许我该顺便提一下，政府用的是借刀杀人之计，出面的是一个有钱有势的资本家，而那个资本家的脑波，便具有克莱斯所谓的‘干扰高原’。侯密尔·孟恩私人搜集了最完整的‘骡学’文献——我故意用这个字眼，来称呼有关骡的各种资料——而且还发表过几篇论文，推测第二基地的本质与功能。至于瑟米克博士，他对脑电图分析的数学有过卓越贡献，不过我想连他自己也不知道，他所发展的数学能够应用在这一方面。”

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瑟米克睁大了眼睛，笑得有点喘不过气来。他说：“我不晓得。小伙子，你知道的，我钻研的是核内运动——这属于多体问题的范畴，我对脑电图根本就一窍不通。”

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“那么，现在我们都知道自己的立场了。当然，政府对这个问题完全束手无策，我不知道市长或者他下面的任何人，是否已经了解到问题的严重性。但是我却知道，我们五个反正已经是死路一条，如果我们挺身而出，也许还有机会扭转乾坤。我们知道得越多，自身的处境也就越安全，现在一切才刚刚开始，各位都应该了解吧。”

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“第二基地进行的渗透，”屠博插嘴问道，“范围究竟有多广泛？”

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“我不知道，不过可以告诉你，我们目前所发现的渗透现象，都只是在外围领域，首都世界也许还没有被波及。不过这一点也不能完全肯定——否则，我根本就用不着检查你们的脑波。达瑞尔博士，其实你本人最为可疑，你可知道，由于你半途与克莱斯拆伙，克莱斯从来没有原谅过你。我曾经猜想，或许是第二基地收买了你，可是克莱斯却始终坚持你是个懦夫。请不要见怪，达瑞尔博士，我这样有话直说，只是想表明自己的立场。我——我自认可以了解你的心意，如果你真是懦弱的话，也实在情有可原。”

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达瑞尔深深吸了一口气，然后才回答说：“我的确是临阵脱逃！随便你怎么说都没有关系，我曾经试图维持我们之间的友谊，可是，他从此没有再写信或打电话给我。直到那一天，我收到你的脑波数据，而一周后他就去世了……”

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“对不起，”侯密尔·孟恩打断了他的话，然后以紧张兮兮的口气，理直气壮地说，“我认为你们自己都搞不……不清楚到底在干什么，如果我们一直像这样讲个不停，讲个不停，讲个……不停，那我们只是一群光会纸……纸上谈兵的阴谋家。反正，我根本看不出我们能做些什么，这实在是非……非常幼稚，什么脑……脑电波等等的一大堆废话，你们到底有没有想到什么具体行动？”

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裴礼斯·安索的眼睛突然亮了起来：“当然有，我们需要搜集更多关于第二基地的资料，这是最重要的一件事。在骡统治银河的第一个五年间，他曾经试图探索第二基地的下落，可是终究失败了——或者说，大家都以为他失败了。然而他突然中止了寻找的行动，这究竟是为什么呢？因为他失败了？还是因为他成功了？”

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“还……还在耍嘴皮子，”孟恩以苦涩的口气说，“我们又怎么知道？”

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“请你耐心听我说完。当年骡定都于卡尔根，在骡崛起之前，卡尔根并不在基地的贸易势力网之内，如今也仍旧如此。现在卡尔根由一位名叫史铁亭的军阀统治——除非明天再度爆发一场宫廷革命。他自称第一公民，并且自命为骡的继任者。如果说那个世界有任何传统，那就是对于骡的超人本领的盲目崇拜——这种强烈的传统已经近乎迷信。结果，当年骡的官邸如今成了圣殿，政府全力善加维护，普通人不准进入，里面的东西也全都原封未动。”

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“这又怎么样呢？”

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“怎么样，为什么会这样呢？如今是一个事出必有因的时代，假如骡的官邸完好如初，并不是由于迷信的关系呢？若是由第二基地所安排的又如何呢？简单地说，如果骡探索了五年的结果，就在里面……”

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“噢，胡……胡说八道。”

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“为什么不可能？”安索反问：“第二基地从一开始就神出鬼没，对于银河事务一直维持最小程度的干预。我知道在我们看来，将那座官邸摧毁会更合理，或者至少应该将其中的资料移走。可是你必须设法揣摩那些心理学大师的心理，他们个个都是谢顿，都是骡；他们行事全都依靠精神力量，方法一律是既迂回又曲折。如果他们建立起一种心理状态，足以保护其中的资料，他们就不会想要将它毁掉或搬走。你们说是不是？”

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没有人立刻答腔，于是安索又继续说：“而你，孟恩，就是我们的最佳人选，你必须帮我们弄到那些情报。”

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“我？”这句话其实是一声充满了惊愕的吼叫。然后孟恩迅速地环视众人，再说，“我可不会做这种事，我既不是行动派，也不是超视中的英雄，只是一名图书馆馆员。如果我能在图书馆里面帮你们的忙，那我索性就豁出去，冒险帮你们找找第二基地。可是我绝不要到太空去，去做那种疯……疯狂的事情。”

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“听好，”安索耐着性子说，“达瑞尔博士跟我，都一致同意你是最佳人选，只有你去才能显得最自然。你说你是一名图书馆馆员，很好！你最感兴趣的是什么题目？是‘骡学’！放眼当今银河，你收藏的关于骡的资料没人比得上，自然会想要搜集更多这方面的资料，所以你的动机比任何人都要单纯。如果你申请进入卡尔根的骡殿，不会有人怀疑你有其他的动机。也许你的申请会被拒绝，可是却不会引起任何疑心。此外，你有一艘单人太空游艇，而且大家都知道，你每年放暑假的时候，都会驾着那艘游艇去异邦行星旅行，而且也曾经去过卡尔根。你只需要照着以前的方式去做，这你难道不懂吗？”

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“但是我不能就这么冒冒失失地去说：您能……能否恩准我进入你们最神圣的圣殿，第……第一公民阁下？”

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“有何不可？”

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“因为，银河在上，他不可能批准的！”

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“好吧，如果他不准的话，那么你就马上回来，我们再想别的法子。”

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孟恩露出了万分不愿的表情，默默地环顾其他四个人。他感到自己马上就要被说服，去做一件极不情愿的事情。可是在座的其他人，却没有一位愿意向他伸出援手。

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就这样，在这个夜晚结束之前，有两项决定在达瑞尔博士家中出炉。第一个是孟恩所做的决定，他心不甘、情不愿地答允众人，一旦暑假开始，他就立刻奔向太空。

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而第二个决定，则是出自这个聚会的一位非正式成员。当艾嘉蒂娅关掉集音器，终于准备就寝的时候，她私下做了一个重要决定。至于它的内容，现在对我们还不重要。

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在第二基地上，时间又过去了一个星期。现在，首席发言者再度笑容可掬地迎接那名弟子。

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“你一定发现了什么有趣的结果，否则不会满腔怒火。”

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弟子用手按着带来的一束计算纸，然后说：“您确定这个问题是真实的吗？”

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“前提是千真万确的，我一点都没有改动。”

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“那么，我就必须接受计算的结果，可是我又不愿意接受。”

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“自然，但是你自己的希望跟这又有什么关系？好吧，告诉我你究竟在担心什么。不，不，把你的推导过程放在一边，等一下我再来分析。现在，用你自己的话告诉我，让我来判断你对这个问题的了解程度。”

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For Dr. Darell and Pelleas Anthor, the evenings passed in friendly intercourse ; the days in pleasant unimportance. It might have been an ordinary visit. Dr. Darell introduced the young man as a cousin from across space, and interest was dulled by the clich?

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Somehow, however, among the small talk, a name might be mentioned. There would be an easy thoughtfulness. Dr. Darell might say, "No," or he might say, "Yes." A call on the open Communi-wave issued a casual invitation, "Want you to meet my cousin."

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And Arcadia’s preparations proceeded in their own manner. In fact, her actions might be considered the least straightforward of all.

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For instance, she induced Olynthus Dam at school to donate to her a home-built, self-contained sound-receiver by methods which indicated a future for her that promised peril to all males with whom she might come into contact. To avoid details, she merely exhibited such an interest in Olynthus’ self-publicized hobby ?he had a home workshop-combined with such a well-modulated transfer of this interest to Olynthus’ own pudgy features, that the unfortunate youth found himself: 1) discoursing at great and animated length upon the principles of the hyperwave motor; 2) becoming dizzyingly aware of the great, absorbed eyes that rested so lightly upon his; and 3) forcing into her willing hands his own greatest creation, the aforesaid sound-receiver.

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Arcadia cultivated Olynthus in diminishing degree thereafter for just long enough to remove all suspicion that the sound-receiver had been the cause of the friendship. For months afterwards, Olynthus felt the memory of that short period in his life over and over again with the tendrils of his mind, until finally, for lack of further addition, he gave up and let it slip away.

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When the seventh evening came, and five men sat in the Darell living room with food within and tobacco without, Arcadia’s desk upstairs was occupied by this quite unrecognizable home-product of Olynthus’ ingenuity .

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Five men then. Dr. Darell, of course, with graying hair and meticulous clothing, looking somewhat older than his forty-two years. Pelleas Author, serious and quick-eyed at the moment looking young and unsure of himself. And the three new men: Jole Turbor, visicastor, bulky and plump-lipped; Dr. Elvett Semic, professor-emeritus of physics at the University, scrawny and wrinkled, his clothes only half-filled; Homir Munn, librarian, lanky and terribly ill-at-ease.

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Dr. Darell spoke easily, in a normal, matter-of-fact tone: "This gathering has been arranged, gentlemen, for a trifle more than merely social reasons. You may have guessed this. Since you have been deliberately chosen because of your backgrounds, you may also guess the danger involved. I won’t minimize it, but I will point out that we are all condemned men, in any case.

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"You will notice that none of you have been invited with any attempt at secrecy . None of you have been asked to come here unseen. The windows are not adjusted to non-insight. No screen of any sort is about the room. We have only to attract the attention of the enemy to be ruined; and the best way to attract that attention is to assume a false and theatrical secrecy.

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(Hah, thought Arcadia, bending over the voices coming ?a bit screechily ?out of the little box.)

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"Do you understand that?"

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Elvett Semic twitched his lower lip and bared his teeth in the screwup, wrinkled gesture that preceded his every sentence. "Oh, get on with it. Tell us about the youngster."

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Dr. Darell said, "Pelleas Anthor is his name. He was a student of my old colleague, Kleise, who died last year. Kleise sent me his brain-pattern to the fifth sublevel, before he died, which pattern has been now checked against that of the man before you. You know, of course, that a brain-pattern cannot be duplicated that far, even by men of the Science of Psychology . If you don’t know that, you’ll have to take my word for it."

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Turbor said, purse-lipped, "We might as well make a beginning somewheres. We’ll take your word for it, especially since you’re the greatest electroneurologist in the Galaxy now that Kleise is dead. At least, that is the way I’ve described you in my visicast comment, and I even believe it myself. How old are you, Anthor?"

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"Twenty-nine, Mr. Turbor."

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"Hm-mmm. And are you an electroneurologist, too? A great one?"

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"Just a student of the science. But I work hard, and I’ve had the benefit of Kleise’s training."

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Munn broke in. He had a slight stammer at periods of tension. "I ... I wish you’d g ... get started. I think everyone’s t ... talking too much."

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Dr. Darell lifted an eyebrow in Munn’s direction. you’re right, Homir. Take over, Pelleas."

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"Not for a while," said Pelleas Anthor, slowly, "because before we can get started ?although I appreciate Mr. Munn’s sentiment ?I must request brain-wave data."

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Darell frowned. "What is this, Anthor? What brain-wave data do you refer to?"

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"The patterns of all of you. You have taken mine, Dr. Darell. I must take yours and those of the rest of you. And I must take the measurements myself."

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Turbor said, "There’s no reason for him to trust us, Darell. The young man is within his rights."

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"Thank you," said Anthor. "If you抣l lead the way to your laboratory then, Dr. Darell, well proceed. I took the liberty this morning of checking your apparatus ."

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The science of electroencephalography was at once new and old. It was old in the sense that the knowledge of the microcurrents generated by nerve cells of living beings belonged to that immense category of human knowledge whose origin was completely lost It was knowledge that stretched back as far as the earliest remnants of human history?

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And yet it was new, too. The fact of the existence of microcurrents slumbered through the tens of thousands of years of Galactic Empire as one of those vivid and whimsical, but quite useless, items of human knowledge. Some had attempted to form classifications of waves into waking and sleeping, calm and excited, well and ill ?but even the broadest conceptions had had their hordes of vitiating exceptions.

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Others had tried to show the existence of brain-wave groups, analogous to the well-known blood groups, and to show that external environment was the defining factor. These were the race-minded people who claimed that Man could be divided into subspecies. But such a philosophy could make no headway against the overwhelming ecumenical drive involved in the fact of Galactic Empire ?one political unit covering twenty million stellar systems, involving all of Man from the central world of Trantor ?now a gorgeous and impossible memory of the great past ?to the loneliest asteroid on the periphery .

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And then again, in a society given over, as that of the First Empire was, to the physical sciences and inanimate technology, there was a vague but mighty sociological push away from the study of the mind. It was less respectable because less immediately useful; and it was poorly financed since it was less profitable.

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After the disintegration of the First Empire, there came the fragmentation of organized science, back, back ?past even the fundamentals of atomic power into the chemical power of coal and oil. The one exception to this, of course, was the First Foundation where the spark of science, revitalized and grown more intense was maintained and fed to flame. Yet there, too, it was the physical that ruled, and the brain, except for surgery, was neglected ground.

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Hari Seldon was the first to express what afterwards came to be accepted as truth.

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" Neural microcurrents," he once said, "carry within them the spark of every varying impulse and response, conscious and unconscious. The brain-waves recorded on neatly squared paper in trembling peaks and troughs are the mirrors of the combined thought-pulses of billions of cells. Theoretically, analysis should reveal the thoughts and emotions of the subject, to the last and least. Differences should be detected that are due not only to gross physical defects, inherited or acquired, but also to shifting states of emotion, to advancing education and experience, even to something as subtle as a change in the subject’s philosophy of life."

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But even Seldon could approach no further than speculation .

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And now for fifty years, the men of the First Foundation had been tearing at that incredibly vast and complicated storehouse of new knowledge. The approach, naturally, was made through new techniques ?as, for example, the use of electrodes at skull sutures by a newly-developed means which enabled contact to be made directly with the gray cells, without even the necessity of shaving a patch of skull. And then there was a recording device which automatically recorded the brain-wave data as an overall total, and as separate functions of six independent variables.

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What was most significant, perhaps, was the growing respect in which encephalography and the encephalographer was held. Kleise, the greatest of them, sat at scientific conventions on an equal basis with the physicist . Dr. Darell, though no longer active in the science, was known for his brilliant advances in encephalographic analysis almost as much as for the fact that he was the son of Bayta Darell, the great heroine of the past generation.

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And so now, Dr. Darell sat in his own chair, with the delicate touch of the feathery electrodes scarcely hinting at pressure upon his skull, while the vacuum-incased needles wavered to and fro. His back was to the recorder ?otherwise, as was well known, the sight of the moving curves induced an unconscious effort to control them, with noticeable results ?but he knew that the central dial was expressing the strongly rhythmic and little-varying Sigma curve, which was to be expected of his own powerful and disciplined mind. It would be strengthened and purified in the subsidiary dial dealing with the Cerebellar wave. There would be the sharp, near-discontinuous leaps from the frontal lobe , and the subdued shakiness from the subsurface regions with its narrow range of frequencies?

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He knew his own brain-wave pattern much as an artist might be perfectly aware of the color of his eyes.

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Pelleas Anthor made no comment when Darell rose from the reclining chair. The young man abstracted the seven recordings , glanced at them with the quick, all-embracing eyes of one who knows exactly what tiny facet of near-nothingness is being looked for.

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"If you don’t mind, Dr. Semic."

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Semic’s age-yellowed face was serious. Electroencephalography was a science of his old age of which he knew little; an upstart that he faintly resented. He knew that he was old and that his wave-pattern would show it. The wrinkles on his face showed it, the stoop in his walk, the shaking of his hand ?but they spoke only of his body. The brain-wave patterns might show that his mind was old, too. An embarrassing and unwarranted invasion of a man’s last protecting stronghold, his own mind.

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The electrodes were adjusted. The process did not hurt, of course, from beginning to end. There was just that tiny tingle , far below the threshold of sensation.

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And then came Turbor, who sat quietly and unemotionally through the fifteen minute process, and Munn, who jerked at the first touch of the electrodes and then spent the session rolling his eyes as though he wished he could turn them backwards and watch through a hole in his occiput.

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"And now? said Darell, when all was done.

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"And now," said Anthor, apologetically, "there is one more person in the house."

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Darell, frowning, said: "My daughter?"

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’Yes. I suggested that she stay home tonight, if you’ll remember."

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"For encephalographical analysis? What in the Galaxy for?"

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"I cannot proceed without it."

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Darell shrugged and climbed the stairs. Arcadia, amply warned, had the sound-receiver off when he entered; then followed him down with mild obedience . It was the first time in her life ?except for the taking of her basic mind pattern as an infant, for identification and registration purposes ?that she found herself under the electrodes.

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"May I see," she asked, when it was over, holding out her hand.

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Dr. Darell said, "You would not understand, Arcadia. Isn’t it time for you to go to bed?"

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"Yes, father," she said, demurely . "Good night, all."

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She ran up the stairs and plumped into bed with a minimum of basic preparation. With Olynthus’ sound-receiver propped beside her pillow, she felt like a character out of a book-film, and hugged every moment of it close to her chest in an ecstasy of "Spy-stuff."

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The first words she heard were Anthor’s and they were: "The analyses, gentlemen, are all satisfactory. The child’s as well."

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Child, she thought disgustedly, and bristled at Anthor in the darkness.

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Anthor had opened his briefcase now, and out of it, he took several dozen brain-wave records. They were not originals. Nor had the briefcase been fitted with an ordinary lock. Had the key been held in any hand other than his own, the contents thereof would have silently and instantly oxidized to an indecipherable ash. Once removed from the briefcase, the records did so anyway after half an hour.

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But during their short lifetime, Anthor spoke quickly. "I have the records here of several minor government officials at Anacreon. This is a psychologist at Locris University; this an industrialist at Siwenna. The rest are as you see."

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They crowded closely. To all but Darell, they were so many quivers on parchment. To Darell, they shouted with a million tongues.

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Anthor pointed lightly, "I call your attention, Dr. Darell, to the plateau region among the secondary Tauian waves in the frontal lobe, which is what all these records have in common. Would you use my Analytical Rule, sir, to check my statement?"

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The Analytical Rule might be considered a distant relation ?as a skyscraper is to a shack ?of that kindergarten toy, the logarithmic Slide Rule. Darell used it with the wristflip of long practice. He made freehand drawings of the result and, as Anthor stated, there were featureless plateaus in frontal lobe regions where strong swings should have been expected.

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"How would you interpret that, Dr. Darell?" asked Anthor.

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"I’m not sure. Offhand , I don’t see how it’s possible. Even in cases of amnesia , there is suppression, but not removal. Drastic brain surgery, perhaps?"

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"Oh, something’s been cut out," cried Anthor, impatiently, "yes! Not in the physical sense, however. You know, the Mule could have done just that. He could have suppressed completely all capacity for a certain emotion or attitude of mind, and leave nothing but just such a flatness. Or else?

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"Or else the Second Foundation could have done it. Is that it?" asked Turbor, with a slow smile.

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There was no real need to answer that thoroughly rhetorical question.

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"What made you suspicious, Mr. Anthor?" asked Munn.

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"It wasn’t I. It was Dr. Kleise. He collected brain-wave patterns much as the Planetary Police do, but along different lines. He specialized in intellectuals, government officials and business leaders. You see, it’s quite obvious that if the Second Foundation is directing the historical course of the Galaxy ?of us ?that they must do it subtly and in as minimal a fashion as possible. If they work through minds, as they must, it is the minds of people with influence; culturally, industrially, or politically. And with those he concerned himself."

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"Yes," objected Munn, "but is there corroboration ? How do these people act ?I mean the ones with the plateau. Maybe it’s all a perfectly normal phenomenon." He looked hopelessly at the others out of his, somehow, childlike blue eyes, but met no encouraging return.

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"I leave that to Dr. Darell," said Anthor. "Ask him how many times he’s seen this phenomenon in his general studies, or in reported cases in the literature over the past generation. Then ask him the chances of it being discovered in almost one out of every thousand cases among the categories Dr. Kleise studied."

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"I suppose that there is no doubt," said Darell, thoughtfully, "that these are artificial mentalities . They have been tampered with. In a way, I have suspected this?

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"I know that, Dr. Darell," said Author. "I also know you once worked with Dr. Kleise. I would like to know why you stopped."

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There wasn’t actually hostility in his question. Perhaps nothing more than caution; but, at any rate, it resulted in a long pause. Darell looked from one to another of his guests, then said brusquely, "Because there was no point to Kleise’s battle. He was competing with an adversary too strong for him. He was detecting what we ?he and I ?knew he would detect ?that we were not our own masters. And I didn’t want to know! I had my self-respect. I liked to think that our Foundation was captain of its collective soul; that our forefathers had not quite fought and died for nothing. I thought it would be most simple to turn my face away as long as I was not quite sure. I didn’t need my position since the Government pension awarded to my mother’s family in perpetuity would take care of my uncomplicated needs. My home laboratory would suffice to keep boredom away, and life would some day end?Then Kleise died?

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Semic showed his teeth and said: "This fellow Kleise; I don’t know him. How did he die?"

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Anthor cut in: "He died. He thought he would. He told me half a year before that he was getting too close--"

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"Now we’re too c ... close, too, aren’t we?" suggested Munn, dry-mouthed, as his Adam’s apple jiggled.

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"Yes," said Anthor, flatly, "but we were, anyway ?all of us. It’s why you’ve all been chosen. I’m Kleise’s student. Dr. Darell was his colleague. Jole Turbor has been denouncing our blind faith in the saving hand of the Second Foundation on the air, until the government shut him off ?through the agency, I might mention, of a powerful financier whose brain shows what Kleise used to call the Tamper Plateau. Homir Munn has the largest home collection of Muliana ?if I may use the phrase to signify collected data concerning the Mule ?in existence, and has published some papers containing speculation on the nature and function of the Second Foundation. Dr. Semic has contributed as much as anyone to the mathematics of encephalographic analysis, though I don’t believe he realized that his mathematics could be so applied ."

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Semic opened his eyes wide and chuckled gaspingly, "No, young fellow. I was analyzing intranuclear motions ?the n-body problem, you know. I’m lost in encephalography."

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"Then we know where we stand. The government can, of course, do nothing about the matter. Whether the mayor or anyone in his administration is aware of the seriousness of the situation, I don’t know. But this I do know ?we five have nothing to lose and stand to gain much. With every increase in our knowledge, we can widen ourselves in safe directions. We are but a beginning, you understand."

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"How widespread," put in Turbor, "is this Second Foundation infiltration ?"

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"I don’t know. There’s a flat answer. All the infiltrations we have discovered were on the outer fringes of the nation. The capital world may yet be clean, though even that is not certain ?else I would not have tested you. You were particularly suspicious, Dr. Darell, since you abandoned research with Kleise. Kleise never forgave you, you know. I thought that perhaps the Second Foundation had corrupted you, but Kleise always insisted that you were a coward. You’ll forgive me, Dr. Darell, if I explain this to make my own position clear. I, personally, think I understand your attitude, and, if it was cowardice , I consider it venial ."

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Darell drew a breath before replying. "I ran away! Call it what you wish. I tried to maintain our friendship, however, yet he never wrote nor called me until the day he sent me your brainwave data, and that was scarcely a week before he died?

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"If you don’t mind," interrupted Homir Munn, with a flash of nervous eloquence , "I d ... don’t see what you think you’re doing. We’re a p ... poor bunch of conspirators, if we’re just going to talk and talk and t ... talk. And I don’t see what else we can do, anyway. This is v ... very childish. B ... brain-waves and mumbo jumbo and all that. Is there just one thing you intend to do?"

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Pelleas Author’s eyes were bright, "Yes, there is. We need more information on the Second Foundation. It’s the prime necessity. The Mule spent the first five years of his rule in just that quest for information and failed ?or so we have all been led to believe. But then he stopped looking. Why? Because he failed? Or because he succeeded?"

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"M ... more talk," said Munn, bitterly. "How are we ever to know?"

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"If you’ll listen to me?The Mule’s capital was on Kalgan. Kalgan was not part of the Foundation’s commercial sphere of influence before the Mule and it is not part of it now. Kalgan is ruled, at the moment, by the man, Stettin, unless there’s another palace revolution by tomorrow. Stettin calls himself First Citizen and considers himself the successor of the Mule. If there is any tradition in that world, it rests with the super-humanity and greatness of the Mule ?a tradition almost superstitious in intensity . As a result, the Mule’s old palace is maintained as a shrine . No unauthorized person may enter; nothing within has ever been touched."

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"Well?"

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"Well, why is that so? At times like these, nothing happens without a reason. What if it is not superstition only that makes the Mule’s palace inviolate ? What if the Second Foundation has so arranged matters? In short what if the results of the Mule’s five-year search are within?

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"Oh, p ... poppycock."

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"Why not?" demanded Anthor. "Throughout its history the Second Foundation has hidden itself and interfered in Galactic affairs in minimal fashion only. I know that to us it would seem more logical to destroy the Palace or, at the least, to remove the data. But you must consider the psychology of these master psychologists. They are Seldons; they are Mules and they work by indirection, through the mind. They would never destroy or remove when they could achieve their ends by creating a state of mind. Eh?"

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No immediate answer, and Anthor continued, "And you, Munn, are just the one to get the information we need."

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"I?" It was an astounded yell. Munn looked from one to the other rapidly, "I can’t do such a thing. I’m no man of action; no hero of any teleview. I’m a librarian. If I can help you that way, all right, and I’ll risk the Second Foundation, but I’m not going out into space on any qu ... quixotic thing like that."

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"Now, look," said Anthor, patiently, "Dr. Darell and I have both agreed that you’re the man. It’s the only way to do it naturally. You say you’re a librarian. Fine! What is your main field of interest? Muliana! You already have the greatest collection of material on the Mule in the Galaxy. It is natural for you to want more; more natural for you than for anyone else. You could request entrance to the Kalgan Palace without arousing suspicion of ulterior motives . You might be refused but you would not be suspected. What’s more, you have a one-man cruiser. You’re known to have visited foreign planets during your annual vacation. You’ve even been on Kalgan before. Don’t you understand that you need only act as you always have?"

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"But I can’t just say, ’W ... won’t you kindly let me in to your most sacred shrine, M ... Mr. First Citizen??

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"Why not?"

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"Because, by the Galaxy, he won’t let me!"

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"All right, then. So he won’t Then you’ll come home and we抣l think of something else."

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Munn looked about in helpless rebellion. He felt himself being talked into something he hated. No one offered to help him extricate himself.

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So in the end two decisions were made in Dr. Darell’s house. The first was a reluctant one of agreement on the part of Munn to take off into space as soon as his summer vacation began.

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The other was a highly unauthorized decision on the part of a thoroughly unofficial member of the gathering, made as she clicked off a sound-receiver and composed herself for a belated sleep. This second decision does not concern us just yet.

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