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The four Terrestrials had discussed at some length the subject of Chlora and her outlandish population.
"It looks as though you were perched upon the horns of a first-class dilemma," Dorothy remarked at last. "If you let them alone there is no telling what harm they will do to these people here, and yet it would be a perfect shame to kill them all -- they can't help being what they are. Do you suppose you can figure a way out of it, Dick?"