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that I'd changed my mind -- but I said he'd have to get rid of it the way I wanted him to." Having disclosed her plan, she said -- but not her motive -- and convinced Reginald Hector of its expediency, she'd bundled the baby in the blanket, left the hospital, and entered Tower Hall by the Chancellor's private door.
"Old Dr. Mayo had passed on during my Pregna," she said, "and in the mix-up afterwards I'd had the WESCAC-man at the hospital do the regular Prenatal Aptitude Test on the baby. He thought it hadn't worked, because all the PAT-card said wasPass All Fail All; and I didn't understand it either, but when Papa and I went into the military-stacks in the Library -- to the part where nobody's allowed except chancellors and professor-generals? -- I took the PAT-card along, in case it meantsomething. I folded it up in the baby's blanket, so Papa wouldn't know it was there; then I gave him the baby, and he put it in the Diet-tape lift and pressed theBelly -button so that WESCAC would EAT it."
"He didn't!" Anastasia cried. Then her appall gave way to confusion: "How is it Iwasn't EATen, then, if you sent me down into the Belly?"
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