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Author: Al Cooper
worry, it is quite routine. Paperwork, you know.
- I understand ...
- Tell me, did you know Dr. Klein?
- Know him? I do not think anyone has ever known him. He was the prototype of scientist who people like . He was strange as he alone.
- Rare? You mean those guys who never talk to anyone, they are always absent?
Hopkins could not avoid laughing, then told:
- I think I was wrong. From what I can see, you knew him very well!
Hanson liked people with sense of humor. He r esponded him in the same line.
Remember, FBI makes us an intuition test before entering the Brigade.
- Look at a detail that says it all: we hear about Klein's disease at the same time that his death, I mean, by the newspapers.
- And did not you notice something, something at least ... strange about his usual rarity during the last two weeks?
- No ... - Hopkins stopped to think for a few seconds - well ... on second thought ... yes.
Hanson became serious, suddenly could have something interesting to keep off him from the monotony.
- What? ...
- He spoke even less than usual, he avoided talks at any cost, was limited to answering in monosyllables.
Hanson sighed deeply. False alarm. Someone with that character was not surprising that avoided to keep any dialogue because his dire circumstances. He chose to change the subject.
- As told, he was all an eminence in his field.
- I don’t know if he reached to that degree, but I assure you that he was really good, very good. As good as rare.
Hanson was missing the last question, the one that he would have liked to do first but, by his nature, it should go at last, because otherwise his interlocutor had been placed from the first moment on gua rd and would have hindered his work.
- I am aware that you could answer me evasively to the following question. I understand that we are in a private company with cutting edge technology. Anyway, here it goes ...
As expected, the face of Hopkins changed drastically. His smile disappeared and, instead, he became serious, defensive, but without abandoning his mood.
- Try it ...
- Was he involved in some project ... we could say ... delicate?..
It was the question that Hopkins expected to hear, so he quickly found the answer, or so it seemed to at least Hanson.
- I knew that you would as k me that question. People as they first enter here, expect to see dogs with eight legs or flies with a human head. Then they take a big disappointment - his smile reappeared again - you know, he was overturned on major projects for this company, just that, nothing that is not carried out in other laboratories in the competition.
After that re sponse, little or nothing left for him to ask. Hanson said goodbye to Hopkins not without before thanking by his feedback, and then, more relaxed, to the girl at the desk, after talking a while with her and display all his charms. Too bad he was already committed to Ingrid for the weekend, because that girl was all charm. In any case he exchanged with her his phon e and promised himself to call her at the earliest opportunity.
VII
It took less than a month to the P arty con vention . It would ratify the nomination of Harold to the November presidenti al. It was not just a formality but the moment to reveal the best kept secret, making public the name of his new vice president. On the other hand, n o one, including polls, doubted about Harold's victory over the candidate of the opposition Party , who, in the absence of policy weaknesses of the current president, was limited to insult Harry, the grim vice president that his rival had the misfo rtune to carry around during his entire legislature. Poor resource that little or nothing was going to serve from the time that Harold himself revealed the name of his future vice president. However, without discounting the positive effect of that last blow, the advantage between the two candidates was more than twenty points. It
- I understand ...
- Tell me, did you know Dr. Klein?
- Know him? I do not think anyone has ever known him. He was the prototype of scientist who people like . He was strange as he alone.
- Rare? You mean those guys who never talk to anyone, they are always absent?
Hopkins could not avoid laughing, then told:
- I think I was wrong. From what I can see, you knew him very well!
Hanson liked people with sense of humor. He r esponded him in the same line.
Remember, FBI makes us an intuition test before entering the Brigade.
- Look at a detail that says it all: we hear about Klein's disease at the same time that his death, I mean, by the newspapers.
- And did not you notice something, something at least ... strange about his usual rarity during the last two weeks?
- No ... - Hopkins stopped to think for a few seconds - well ... on second thought ... yes.
Hanson became serious, suddenly could have something interesting to keep off him from the monotony.
- What? ...
- He spoke even less than usual, he avoided talks at any cost, was limited to answering in monosyllables.
Hanson sighed deeply. False alarm. Someone with that character was not surprising that avoided to keep any dialogue because his dire circumstances. He chose to change the subject.
- As told, he was all an eminence in his field.
- I don’t know if he reached to that degree, but I assure you that he was really good, very good. As good as rare.
Hanson was missing the last question, the one that he would have liked to do first but, by his nature, it should go at last, because otherwise his interlocutor had been placed from the first moment on gua rd and would have hindered his work.
- I am aware that you could answer me evasively to the following question. I understand that we are in a private company with cutting edge technology. Anyway, here it goes ...
As expected, the face of Hopkins changed drastically. His smile disappeared and, instead, he became serious, defensive, but without abandoning his mood.
- Try it ...
- Was he involved in some project ... we could say ... delicate?..
It was the question that Hopkins expected to hear, so he quickly found the answer, or so it seemed to at least Hanson.
- I knew that you would as k me that question. People as they first enter here, expect to see dogs with eight legs or flies with a human head. Then they take a big disappointment - his smile reappeared again - you know, he was overturned on major projects for this company, just that, nothing that is not carried out in other laboratories in the competition.
After that re sponse, little or nothing left for him to ask. Hanson said goodbye to Hopkins not without before thanking by his feedback, and then, more relaxed, to the girl at the desk, after talking a while with her and display all his charms. Too bad he was already committed to Ingrid for the weekend, because that girl was all charm. In any case he exchanged with her his phon e and promised himself to call her at the earliest opportunity.
VII
It took less than a month to the P arty con vention . It would ratify the nomination of Harold to the November presidenti al. It was not just a formality but the moment to reveal the best kept secret, making public the name of his new vice president. On the other hand, n o one, including polls, doubted about Harold's victory over the candidate of the opposition Party , who, in the absence of policy weaknesses of the current president, was limited to insult Harry, the grim vice president that his rival had the misfo rtune to carry around during his entire legislature. Poor resource that little or nothing was going to serve from the time that Harold himself revealed the name of his future vice president. However, without discounting the positive effect of that last blow, the advantage between the two candidates was more than twenty points. It
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