He had been to Tibet before, Doctor Ryder had mentioned. (He could have known the value of that gem).
Besides, here he was, at a time when Grover had explicitly forbidden Roger, for some hidden reason, against going near the lab. And he was insisting on his disobedience of orders by implying dire happenings!
Roger hesitated.
Why was it important for him to be lured to the laboratory? Had Clark not explained to the Tibetans about the blunder through which the real jewel, jettisoned by Clark, picked up by Potts, had been lost, they might want to lure him, to bring some idea of revenge to pass.
Why should Toby want to do that?
Perhaps, Roger speculated, the youth wanted to get him there and then by use of force open the safe or some other thing.
The value of their own laboratory formulae and data was not less, to them, than a jewel such as the Eye of Aum.
“Against orders!”
Roger, his decision made, started to hang up.
“You’d let that stuff explode, maybe——”