"It was a very scary dream - a memory of a very real thing " Beverly avowed "I woke up in a cold sweat. I wonder if the pills that Whitby gave me had done it. I remembered what Professor Romney had told me about taking risks. I tried to contact him. But he had a crisis on his hands."
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"What happened?" Romney asked a battered Danny.
'The chain broke and he came after me. Miss Mattox tried to give him a sedative, but he threw her away. I ran and he ran after me… I think that Miss Mattox followed… I went out and I tried to hide.. "
"And he did not catch you."
"Now now he is loose. We have to catch him."
"We cannot track him… we will have to wait for Amos to rise. He is the one who can track him down."
"It is too early. And I can track him." He pulled a small black box. "I put a mini transmitter under his skin the last time I looked on him. We just have to follow this blinking light."
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"So Romney had chipped him? Like a cat or a dog?"
"Of course he did not bother to tell us. No point in it, he said. He is quite arrogant if you have not noticed."
"Well. with all his knowledge he has a right to be."
"So, you tracked Adam down?"
"He had not gone far – and fortunately not too close to where people could be found."
"And you caught him?"
"Romney did."
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"Are you going to shoot him? Danny asked aghast when Romney took out a pistol.
"Sedative darts. Make him sleep."
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"It worked and then I had to drag him all the way back. Romney did help. He had a look of distaste in his face at having do to such undignified labor. But he did it. We took him back, and found a sturdier chain."
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"You have to take him away, Professor." Heater Mattox said. "You can study him just as well at your headquarters as here. And we would not need to worry about him escaping again."
"I am finding a place for him."
"Well, do it. Next time that he escapes he might do some serious damage."
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"As for me" Beverly interected "I managed to convince myself that it was just a bad dream. That as I was looking into the past I had ran across one of my own memories. I should remind myself that no matter where I was or what I was seeing I had to keep on going straight…. I had leaned how to do it in dreams… it does not take much just a command to myself "keep going"
"So you took your pills and went into a trance again?"
"Yes. I reread my notes what I had gathered . I had gotten the time and the place and one name "Ellie Reading". I reread them carefully and as I sank into my mind I told myself "Find Ellie"
"And then..."
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Chester Simms was there. And he put his hands on her throat. "You had to find out."
Beverly pushed himself to go through Simms. But he did not let go "You should not have looked. I told you to keep away from that box. Ellie"
She kept pushing through. But Simms would not fade away.
And it was not Simms' face. It was Whitby's
"I told you to leave that box alone." Whitby said squeezing her throat.