John turned to me.
"We have here, Morry, a careful collection of the leading specialists in the world. These people are the reason for David Adam Smith being able to outthink any fifty men. These are the fifty men he built his reputation with!"
"I don't understand why you all helped him," I said.
"Because he used to oscillate the crystals we were in, young man."
"But now it's our turn!"
"By heaven, wait until I meet that treacherous snake...."
"I'm going to sue him for every credit he has!"
"Who would care to join me in pulling him into small pieces surgically?"
The babble in the cellar rose in volume and intensity. Under it all, the bubble-dancer was whispering in my ear how grateful she was to great big me, and how that foul old goat had kept her for amusement just because she walked into his office to complain when he fired those nice boys....
"He had to, I suppose," I said. "If you saw all these people in crystals."