This Island Earth Page #6

do with some fresh air myself.

Would you care to join me, Dr. Adams?

You, Dr. carlson?

Show him the grounds.

We won't start cracking the whip

on Meacham until tomorrow.

That's quite a group

Exeter has collected. Quite.

That's Dr. Hu Hin Hang.

Tang's field is tritanium,

the same as Dr. Engelborg.

Dr. Marie Pitchner, u-235.

Dr. Blorfield, plutonium.

Hmm, that puts all of us...

in the production of nuclear energy,

doesn't it, Carlson?

What are you getting at?

Why no biochemists, electronic

experts, mechanical engineers,

people equipped to make

practical application...

of the energy

the rest of us produce?

I seem to remember that was part of

Exeter's pitch. We try to make it a rule...

not to discuss our work

after hours.

Now how about

that fresh air?

How about you and Dr. Adams

showing me my laboratory instead?

After all I've heard today, I can hardly

wait to add my little contribution...

to the good work.

This way, doctor.

Your lab and my lab

are in this wing.

Steve and the others

are on the right.

This is yours

over here.

It's only Neutron. We call him

that because he's so positive.

Stay off Dr. Meacham's equipment.

Well, what do

you think of it?

It's not bad. Should be able

to get started very quickly.

Fine, but a word of warning.

Don't let Exeter push you too hard.

He's the kind of man who

wants results yesterday.

This is the same size lead

slab I use in my own lab.

I guess you're right. Guess Exeter

doesn't expect me to waste any time.

This is very

interesting.

Now, standing here with the

lead slab in front of us,

The lead reactor panel

behind us,

we're shielded

from nuclear rays.

Could be even from the prying

eyes of Exeter's interocitor.

What's your opinion,

doctors?

All right, I'll

spell it out for you.

You walk around here as if

you're scared of your own shadows.

Ruth's afraid to admit

she and I might have held hands.

That's okay, but either I've got

to figure I'm a little cracked...

Or that Exeter's cat

has got both your tongues.

We have a right to throw a few questions

at you. what are you doing here?

Look, I received

a darn fool catalog.

I couldn't resist it.

I built an interocitor,

arrived on that trick plane,

and that's all I know.

But so help me, in the next ten

minutes, I'm gonna know a lot more.

I believe him, Steve.

Well, I guess

I do too.

Now we're

getting somewhere.

To begin with, Cal,

I was the girl in Vermont.

Then why all the... because

we couldn't take a chance.

There's always the possibility you spent a

few minutes under one of Exeter's sunlamps.

Sunlamp?

That's what it looks like.

Only instead of a suntan, you

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