“I agree,” interrupted Barden. “But again do not forget that this is a field that is new to all scientists.”
“Agreed again,” she said with a slight smile. “But I’ve had several trained men working on your theory. They agree with me.”
“Don’t believe that anyone can formulate an opinion on the material that you have available.”
“Oh, but we can.”
“Then you have experimented—”
“No, we have not.”
“Then exactly where did you get this extra information?” demanded Barden.
Dr. Edith Ward looked at Tom Barden carefully. “From the same place where you got yours!” she said slowly and deliberately.
Barden wondered, did she know?
did she know?He grinned. “I dreamed mine,” he said. “Everything that I’ve produced emanated from a dream.” Then Barden embellished it thoroughly, knowing that the flag
