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see, I had remained sure up to this time that there were two of them. Now and then, for short periods, I had questioned myself about it; but always my certainty of Jerry, as somebody distinct from Keeban, won over my doubt. I would never grant that Jerry, my brother, could be guilty of what Keeban had done.

Then, if they were only one, why would Jerry warn me and send me to prevent the plan of Keeban, as he had sent me to the Sencort Trust?

"Here's Jerry!" I said to myself, and that jump of my heart encouraged me. "He's playing Keeban. He's come for me."

The normals nodded or gazed at him; he gave hardly a glance at them. He looked to Doris and came over to me.

My pulse had stopped jumping then, when I saw him closer. "He's not Jerry!" I warned myself. "He's Keeban!" And then my senses did another roundabout. "He's Keeban and