To the office files Roger hurried. All the data concerning each employe, such as age, experience and so on, was there.
When he had looked, Roger put away the sheets of data carefully, and waited eagerly for Grover to return from interviewing the trainer.
Two sheets had told him much. One had given its maker’s experience on an expedition to India for a power-plant construction job. There was India, ape country. Roger knew that in many sections of India, apes were sacred.
The other sheet had told him that its maker had worked in Australia under Government chemists, studying the inroads of a destructive insect.
He had two names to give Grover.
Science, with brains, had come to the rescue.
Chapter 8
BASKETBALL AND BRAINS
“Admitting your cleverness,” Grover, informed by Roger, was more than surprised, “I still find it hard to accept your deductions.”
“I don’t deduce anything,” Roger argued, “I only got the facts. I think I would almost as soon suspect you as to suspect Mr. Zendt, or Mr. Ellison. But——”
“The appearances certainly look bad,” Grover agreed.