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of 300,000, say a million readers,

and they don't want to read any more

about the five that died.

They want to read about the

one that lived, Dan McCormick.

Where is he?

I don't know what you're talking about.

Oh, come, come!

By the way,

what makes you think he's here?

Well, I bought the fourth-floor nurse

a dollar dinner

and found the taxi cab

that brought him here.

Now, come on, give with the news item.

What's Dr. Lawrence's angle?

I still don't know

what you're talking about.

Okay, I'll wait.

You're wasting your time.

There's nobody here.

Nobody but us dogs.

Hey, you must be all right.

He doesn't usually make friends so easily.

Sure, me and dogs

always get along.

What are your plans?

I don't know.

I was headed for the county fair

when that accident happened.

I was gonna open up my act.

Guess I'm too late now.

Suppose I'll have to do something else.

In the meantime?

Well, in the meantime, there's always

that good old 18 bucks a week

from the unemployment insurance.

Of course, that doesn't start

for a couple of weeks.

Well, why don't you come

and work with me?

What?

I say, why don't you come

and work with me?

What doing?

Well, I've been thinking about

that electrical act you used to do.

Oh, I already told you

that was a phony.

Nevertheless, you survived an electrical

shock that killed five other people.

Maybe it wasn't

such a fake after all.

Maybe you've built up an immunity

to electricity.

What's that?

Immunity?

Ordinarily fatal doses of electricity

can't hurt you.

Oh, you mean kind of like

I was vaccinated against it?

Something like that.

Some cellular or glandular change

has taken place, which renders you immune.

I'd like to find out what that is.

Hey, wait a minute.

You don't mean you want to cut me open?

No, no, no.

Just take your blood count,

examine your muscular coordination

and study your reflexes.

If we can find out what it is that produces

this immunity against electricity,

we might be the means of saving

the hundreds of lives

that are lost every year

through accidental electrocution.

And you can live right here, too.

You mean, I get to eat here, too?

Surely.

Take it easy

until you're well and strong again.

That's good enough for me.

Dr. Rigas,

come here a minute.

He's my associate.

Dr. Rigas, I want you to meet

Dan McCormick.

Good morning, sir.

Hiya, Doc.

I've been trying to persuade Mr. McCormick

to come work with us

while we study his apparent immunity

to high-voltage electrical shock.

Oh, yes! Yes, of course!

Forgive me, I didn't recall

the name for a moment.

You're the one...

Yes, I'm the one that lived.

And I have assured him

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