Queneau claimed this final work would prove "a hidden master of the automaton."

Thus the hidden master of the over-mountain land had built up his forces.

He knew that his own failure might mean difficulty for the hidden master.

George Ambril could testify to that fact, for he had made his share by serving his hidden master.

Would even a hidden master squander a whole planet simply to test one individual?

Yet maybe they obey hidden masters elsewhere, who may not be quite so human.

For already The Creeper, hidden master of crime, was moving anew.

One against six, but the advantage lay with the hidden master.

They do not seem to realize that they have created it here on Earth, at the behest of a hidden master.

That was the name of the hidden master who made all obey his dictates.