59 "Oh," sighed Mountain Glory, "You were awake?"
60 "Only long enough to see you take her into your room. Well?"
61 "Glory Child," said Mountain Glory. "They're getting worse
than ever. Those announcements you ran in the paper didn't do
any good at all. They still keep coming!"
62 "I suppose," continued Gray Boar, "you're going to be more insistent
than ever about bars on those windows?"
63 "I'd sleep a lot better," agreed Mountain Glory, "and next time it
might not be a girl. It might be an agent of The Oneness, or, I might
THINK it's an agent of The Oneness."
64 "All right," agreed Gray Boar, "all right! I can't bear the thought
of you or someone else shooting some girl. Put the bars on the window.
I'd prefer
feeling I'm in a prison than being responsible for that."
65 He picked up his science journal and continued to read. Suddenly he
banged it on the table. "He's got it!" he cried, "He's got it! But he
doesn't see it! It's right there. His experiments show its possible, he
just doesn't see it!" He jumped up from the table and ran to the phone.
66 Curious, Mountain Glory picked up the journal and glanced at the
article he was reading. "Swift Dog," it began, "young Witch in
Eastern, reports on finding new radiation he calls 'radio waves,' that
seem to be naturally emitted from stars. He also successfully
artificially produced the radiation himself, in his laboratory."
67 The rest of the article was by Swift Dog, himself,
explaining his findings, and was far too technical for Mountain Glory.
Her own skills were in other lines.
68 She glanced in the common room. Gray Boar was on the phone. "I don't
care who he's working for!" he was