“Right. The injection probably contained some kind of drug or disease serum that doesn’t show up under ordinary methods of analysis.”
Tom’s jaw clenched angrily. “Your theory sure adds up, Doc. Felix reported yesterday morning that someone broke into his place. And the same thing must have happened to Dr. Grimsey.”
Arv’s eyes were becoming glassy and heavy-lidded. Doc summoned the ambulance attendant to help transfer Arv to a stretcher.
Tom, meanwhile, telephoned Harlan Ames. The security chief soon arrived at the cottage with two of his staff, who began checking immediately for clues.
“Any ideas about this?” Ames asked Tom.
“It’s a cinch Dr. Grimsey and Felix and Arv have all been victims of the same plot,” Tom said. “And there’s one connecting link-they were all working with me on the 3-D telejector.”
Ames gave Tom a worried glance. “You realize what that means, skipper?
You could be next!”
“If that enemy is determined to stop me from, perfecting my new TV system,”
Tom countered, “why hasn’t he already tried slipping me some of those disease germs?”
“Maybe he has tried,” Ames shot back. “But
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since your house has a foolproof alarm system, he tried to get you with a bomb.”
“Then you no longer think the bomb was just a stunt by Lunario to get publicity?”
Ames frowned. “No, not after what has happened to your three assistants.”
Tom shook his head. “The bomb plot was pretty crude by comparison. I don’t think it was the work of the same enemy. He could have used a needle then and there.”
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