Chapter 3
Paul Stone was disturbed by his interview with Lee Cushing. Here was a young man, he thought, with obvious gifts for teaching-in short, for the academic way of life, who expressed a manifest unwillingness to do things that were expected of him. He had read Lee's doctoral thesis, and it had been an excellent one. One of the finest he had read, to be sure; full of good solid documentation and allusion and connection and cross-reference. It was the work of a scholar. Why did Lee Cushing choose to rebel against established policy?
He was working on a novel. Fine. Wonderful.
But it was a conjectural enterprise at best, one that might fail dismally. And John Hanley did not help matters greatly with his encouragement of the project. Hanley was a writer, made his living at it, but in
