scrambled eggs with her own money.
"You're going to eat all that by yourself?" she asked, when they'd found a table to themselves.
"I sure am going to try!" he grinned. And she couldn't believe her eyes as he did! What shocked her even more was when he announced, "Boy, that was good, but I'm still hungry. Wonder what's for lunch?"
"What's gotten into you, Mike? I'm speechless!"
"Nothin' that I know of. Must be the fresh air, I guess! You want anything else?" He looked at her plate and noticed she hadn't even touched her food. "Oh," he said, "I guess not. I'll be right back."
Jeanie almost fainted when she saw him return with a full steak dinner complete with tossed salad!
"Time for lunch, Mike wolfed down the second meal with relish...literally! He ate the entire bottle on the table! Jeanie looked like she would be sick when he poured it over the steak and potatoes! When he was done he looked towards the dessert case.
"NO!" cried Jeanie, "We're going to see Horton, RIGHT NOW!"
"Sure!" agreed Mike. "Nothing looks very good, anyway!"
The doctor was treating someone from the town when they arrived, but the patient soon left.
"Who was that?" asked Mike.
"Oh, some farm boy from down the road," Horton answered, "broke his toe with a hoe! Don't ask me how, I'm still trying to figure it out, though he explained it to me four times! What have you two been up to?"
"Oh, nothing much," Jeanie explained, "Mike just appeared mysteriously in the laboratory through a solid wall, and just ate enough for three men!"
"Pass that by me again," ordered Horton, trying to listen more carefully.
Mike explained his extraordinary entry into the lab, and about his mysterious appetite, also about the headaches when he'd been out in the sun. "Hmmmm," replied Horton, "dematerialization, and matter consumption! Interesting! Have you shown any other abilities?"
"Well," said Mike, kind of embarrassed, "I don't know if I imagined it or not, but I could have sworn I saw Jeanie and Doc talking in the laboratory right through the wall! Not only could I SEE them, I could hear what they were saying!"
"Hmmmm!" the doctor said, "Telepathic empathy. You're going through every ability in the manual!"
"What manual?" asked Jeanie.
"This one," Horton told them, picking up an old battered black book from his desk.