“I"m afraid your sources of information are misleading. I had several conversations with Dr. Holdridge, warning him of his obdurate personality. In fact, just before his untimely death, I was in conversations with the board of trustees on the topic of possibly issuing a reprimand to Walter. As to the accusation that Walter was going to steal a particularly insightful and brilliant idea from one of his prized students, I can assure you that would never have happened.”
“So, he was going to be reprimanded?” Frank asked, sitting back in his chair and crossing one leg over the other as he watched Dr. Sloan.
“We were exploring that option.”
“Right,” Frank said, smiling at Marvin Sloan. Actually, almost leering at the man with a particularly inane, sarcastic grin designed purposefully to get u
