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Then there was another surprise. Back
in the gloom of the cavern I heard the clink of a little
bell, and then this exclamation:
"Hello Central! Is this you, Camelot? - Behold,
thou mayst glad thy heart an thou hast faith to
believe the wonderful when that it cometh in unexpected
guise and maketh itself manifest in impossible
places - here standeth in the flesh his mightiness The
Boss, and with thine own ears shall ye hear him
speak!"
Now what a radical reversal of things this was; what
a jumbling together of extravagant incongruities; what
a fantastic conjunction of oppo