Author's Note There have been so many letters [1] asking how Manning Draco got started and how he developed a secondary mind shield (the only one among the Terrans) that I have decided to take you back in time—back to the year 3470, when Manning Draco was unaware that he had any abilities other than the talents of an ordinary insurance investigator and a first-class ogler of shapely girls.— K.F.C. [1] Well, there was one letter. I Manning Draco had been out of the hospital for the better part of