Mike yawned. "Good idea!" he said. "By the way," he added, "best men wear tuxedoes, too!"
"Oh!" said Cooper, "So they do!"
Mike closed his eyes and seemed to be instantly asleep. Horton stared at Cooper. "Dad?" he asked, "Son? Best Man? Tuxedoes?"
"I'm not sure," said Cooper, "It was a dream."  He quickly explained to the doctor.
"Oh!" said Horton. "Dream unity. Yes, I'd suspect something like that."  Without a word he removed his radiation tag, and went over to the reader. Shoving it in, he adjusted the controls. Cooper went over and looked. The screen was divided into three sections; yellow, orange, and bright red. The orange and red were empty, but in the far left of the screen a dark line went three-quarters of the way up through the yellow. "What's that?" asked Cooper.
"Feeder rays," said Horton, "the lowest radiation we can detect, the weakest radiation known. If you were exposed to a very strong source for a year, that line should be just visible."
Cooper looked at his friend and back to the screen. "But that line's almost at the top of the screen," he said. "Where in the hell's the source?"
Horton turned around and looked at the young man sleeping in the bed. "Right there," he said. "I've only recorded one other source that strong," Horton announced.
"And what was that?" asked Cooper.
"A Faith Healer from Canada," Horton replied. "For brief moments while he was healing, he gave off bursts of that energy. But Mike is giving it off constantly, in high levels every second."
"What does it mean?" asked Cooper.
"I haven't got the faintest idea," Horton answered, "not the faintest!" he stopped for a few seconds to take a good look at the supervisor. "I DO know that right now we have to get some rest. Matthew, I must say, you look terrible! So, if you're still determined to stay the night here, either you stretch out in that chair there, or use the second bed. But GET SOME SLEEP, or I'll order you to complete bed rest for twenty four hours! I know you wouldn't like that any more than I would enjoy having you for a patient!"
Cooper took his eyes away from Mike long enough to ask, "What about you? Where will you sleep?"
"I'll be down with Larry and Jeanie in the dorm. I do hope that boy is asleep by now! I'll send one of the technicians to check on you both in the morning, before I return. Good night, Matthew!"
"Good night, sir!"  Cooper watched Dr. Horton leave the room, shutting the door behind him. He sighed, and yawned. Tomorrow could prove to be an even longer day.