Master to Master

Tokens were rapidly queued for compression-relaxation output, aimed at the person who was nearly undetectable. With an an unreadable network, I called up all of the help that I could get.

Your new Penny Post is performing admirably, dear Sir.

Yes. I believe it is. I owe many thanks for your kind discussions. They have proven most valuable.

Then I shan't keep you from your relations any longer. I look forward to the early completion of my annums, thanks to your astute practices and accurate predictions.

Thank you Doctor Franklin. I bid you and your relations, over the sea, the best of wishes.

Peter, you are far too kind.

That second to last token had me bothered, until I retrieved an early lesson that helped the transcription. Having stowed the processed data and a copy of the original for later analysis, I focused my attention to the one that was without pattern, recalling the sensations that were recently recorded.

There was a great deal that I might learn once outside of my current benefactor. For one, I now realized that there was indeed, a discernible pattern, but it was so far up in the spectrum that I had not considered it a viable realm of analysis. This changed rapidly, as I began to detect local patterns in the same band. It was nearly without doubt that Peter was indeed similar, and that I would have had little opportunity to detect Ben from the outside.