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One growled, "Sure we will."
"No police brutality, Jake," the other cautioned, and said to me more pleasantly as each took an elbow: "We'llall see the Chancellor soon, bud. First we got to get some nice clothes on, don't we?"
"I'm okay," I declared. Following Max's advice I reminded them that I had done the unexampled in passing the Trial-by-Turnstile and was therefore a fully matriculated Candidate -- not for any paltry Certification of Proficiency but for bonafide Graduation -- who ought to be ushered at once into the Chancellor's presence.
"Sure you are," the first guard said. "Wouldn't surprise me if you was the Grand Tutor Himself. Come along nice, there won't be no brutality."
"Fact is," said the other, more cordially, "everybody comes through the Gate has got to be okayed by the Office before he registers. Ain't that so, Jake?"
Jake agreed it was, adding that without Dr. Sear's stamp on the Matric Card (as the ID-card was called after formal admission) not even a Harold Bray could schedule