Marvelous, my dear Doctor! Or is it Professor Mallow ?" The speaker laughed heartily.

"Won't you introduce me to these--let us say magnetic forces of nature that you have discovered ?" He indicated the two partners.
"What do you want ?" Mallow barked.
"Momentary agitation has robbed our Professor of his habitual politeness--a not unusual phenomenon of the preoccupied scientific mind." These words were directed at McWade and Stoner.

"My name is Gray.

Perhaps Doctor Mallow has made mention of me." "So you're the lad that threw pepper in his eyes ?" Brick Stoner stared at the newcomer with undisguised interest.

He rose, as did McWade.
"I'll say we've heard of you.