"Mind telling me where the Blaines come in?"
"Certainly. But I won't. You brought them."
"I'll be damned if I bring them."
The other man smiled knowingly. "As you tried to corral the other gang?"
"Meaning?" demanded Les.
"There's many's the slip. 'A would some power the giftie gi'e us, to see ourselves as ithers see us,'" quoted Tansie Lee's husband. "I suppose you're not to blame; but you will agree that it is quite a mess."
"Agreed. Now what do I do about it?"
"Ackerman, what started all this?"
"A strange explosion brought about by the temperon metal in the cyclotron-set-up."
"And how is it to end?"