“Suits me fine,” Toby agreed, “I got a lot more of Doctor Ryder’s what he calls compounds, that he is going to use to medicate the rats he is going to replace.”
The members of the staff, trained under the phlegmatic, scientific methods of Grover, took very little time to discuss conditions. The routine work of scientific research had to proceed. They made it do so. Each took up his task. Mr. Zendt, with his new investigations, and the electricians and other staff men, left the matter that had no bearing on their results in the hands of those most interested.
Potts, while Roger located his “sound” list, speculated about the situation.
“That Ellison come out on top in the chemistry retroactivities,” he began, and when Roger had substituted “reactions,” he proceeded:
“But are you so sure, Rog’?”
“Well, the way Grover works, I am not sure and I am not un-sure. I’m going to dig to the heart of truth. Now, with our clues, we have a lot of circumstantial evidence-clues; and we have a heap of visible clues; but I think the audible ones will tell most, just as Grover does.”
“Circumstantial evidence? Such as what?”
“People being at certain places. Here, maybe, when something happened. And like Mister Ellison arriving just when we least expected.”
“Then, what about visible ones?”
“The animals on a film taken in a room with no animals in it. The actions of people, if we could only read them. The picture in the office, last night, with a man’s back turned, Astrovox scared, and the smoke.”