“It’s the hair of an ape or a gorilla.”
“How do you know, for sure?”
“Once,” said Bentley grimly, “for several horrible hours ... I was a giant anthropoid ape.”
Tyler’s chair legs crashed solidly to the floor.
“I see,” he said. “You think this thing has some connection with your own experiences. How long ago was that?”
“Slightly over two months.”
“You think the same man...?”
“I don’t know. But who could want, as a newspaper story I just read says, to steal the brains of men? What for? It sounds like Barter. I’ve never heard of anybody else with such an obsession. I’m putting two and two together––and fervently hoping they’ll add up to seven instead of four. For if ever in my life I wanted to be wrong it’s now.”
Tyler pursed his lips. Bentley saw that his eyes were glinting with excitement.