CHAPTER 2“So I lost a wife I didn’t even know I had and punched a character who’d taken her away from me in a theater I’d never seen before.”
After making that statement, Mike gulped at his scotch and soda and waited for Paul Bender’s comment. It came in due course.
“You’ve been a busy little man.”
“Please, Paul. I’m serious. This thing’s got me scared silly.”
“I don’t blame you, but let’s keep the blood pressure down and see what we can figure out.”
Paul Bender was the prestige member of Kane’s faculty. By merely being there, he got the college jots and tittles of publicity it could never have merited otherwise. He knew as much about space age technology—theoretical and practical—as any living man, and far more than perhaps a scant dozen or so. He owned patents on such curious things
