"I agree. Olmstead probably could not succeed."
"Well, then, can Samms?" Kinnison demanded.
"Who knows?" came Bergenholm's mental shrug, and simultaneously:
"Nobody knows whether I can or not, but I am going to try," and Samms ended—almost—the argument by asking Bergenholm and a couple of other Lensmen to come into his office and by taking off his Lens.
"And that's another thing I don't like." Kinnison offered one last objection. "Without your Lens, anything can happen to you."
"Oh, I won't have to be without it very long. And besides, Virgilia isn't the only one in the Samms family who can work better—sometimes—without a Lens."
The Lensmen came in and, in a surprisingly short time, went out. A few minutes later, two Lensmen strolled out of Samms' inner office into the outer one.
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