"Any amount of it."
"Of it take your full weight. And of the black ore of which you have occasionally used a little, one-fourth of your weight ..."
The instructions went on, from ore to finished product in complete detail, and at its end:
"If you follow these directions carefully you will have a high-alloy-steel—chrome-nickel-vanadium-molybdenum-tungsten steel, to be exact—case-hardened and heat-treated; exactly what you need. Can you remember them all?"
"I can, Lord. Never have I dared write anything down, so my memory is good. Every quantity you have given me, every temperature and step and process and item; they are all completely in mind."
"I go, then. Good-bye."
"I thank you, Lord Llosir. Good-bye." The Lomarrian bowed his head, and when he straightened up his incomprehensible v
