“I SUPPOSE YOU’VE GUESSED most of it already,” said Berg. “We needed a scientist of your caliber for our project. One thing we’re desperately short of is technical personnel, since the only real education in such lines is to be had on Earth and most graduates find comfortable berths in the existing society. Like you, for instance. So we played a trick on you. We used part of our organization—yes, we have a big one, and it’s pretty smart and powerful too—to convince you this was a government job of top secrecy. More damn things can be done in the name of Security—” Berg clicked his tongue. “Everybody you saw at the station was more or less play-acting, of course. The whole thing was set up to fool you. We might not have gotten away with it if we’d used some other person, more shrewd about s
