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It gazed levelly at him.




Arthur's first sensations of hope and trepidation had instantly been overwhelmed by astonishment, and all sorts of thoughts were battling for the use of his vocal chords at this moment.




"Whh ...?" he said.




"Bu ... hu ... uh ..." he added.




"Ru ... ra ... wah ... who?" he managed finally to say and lapsed into a frantic kind of silence. He was feeling the effects of having not said anything to anybody for as long as he could remember.




The alien creature frowned briefly and consulted what appeared to be some species of clipboard which he was holding in his thin and spindly alien hand.




"Arthur Dent?" it said.




Arthur nodded helplessly.




"Arthur Philip Dent?" pursued the alien in a kind of efficient yap.




"Er ... er ... yes ... er ... er," confirmed Arthur.