"Mean to tell me they've taken to hitch-hiking out in space?”
Gary laughed. "Even better than that, doctor," he said. "There's a little story about Miss Martin you'll enjoy.”
"Come on," he roared at them. "Get out of your duds. I got some coffee brewing. And you'll want to meet Tommy Evans. He's that young fool who thinks he's going to fly four light-years out to old A.C.”
And at just that moment Tommy Evans burst into the room.
"Doc," he shouted, "that damn machine of yours is at it again.”
Dr. Kingsley turned and lumbered out, shouting back at them.
"Come along. Never mind the suits.”
They ran behind him as he lumbered along. Through what obviously were the laboratory's living quarters, through a tiny kitchen that smelled of boiling coffee, into a workroom bare of everything except a machine that stood in one corner. A red light atop the machine was blinking rapidly.
"Whatever you say is off the record, is off the record," Gary told him.
"There's so much of it," rumbled the doctor, "that sounds like sheer dream stuff.”