BAKER SIGHED AS HE glanced at the folder labeled, Clearwater College. Jerkwater is what it should be, he thought. He almost wished he had let Pehrson handle Fenwick. But one couldn’t neglect old friends, even though there was nothing that could be done for shortsighted ones. Baker’s memories shifted. He and Fenwick had gone to school together. Fenwick had always been one to get off into weird wide alleys, mostly dead ended. Now he was involved in what was probably the most dead ended of all. For the last three years he had been president of little Jerkwater—Clearwater College, and he seemed to have some hope that NBSD could help him out of the hole. That was a mistake many people made. Baker sometimes felt that half his time was spent in explaining that NBSD was not in the business of he

