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 Once more the mother of Lionel Clarence sighed helplessly.

"Do you fight?"

"I've quit fightin', in this town!" answered Lonely, the scarred and victorious, an Alexander with no more worlds to conquer.

And although the outcome of their private talk talk was somewhat uncertain, and the most that she could report to her husband was "That he at least lives up to his barbarian code," she finally  decided that Lionel Clarence should be handed over to the temporal care of Lonely.