Chapter 1 ~
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ust~ee Claude Young slumped in his pick-up in the parking
keep lot at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories near
Los Alamos， New Mexico， and looked at his watch
again. His left arm came up slowly， his eyes took a
moment to focus， and then he read the digital num-
bers on his watch. Fifteen minutes yet. The man
~ said nine o clock A.~.， so he had to wait. Claude
\" wasn t sure why. The man had told him to wait， and
that was reason enough. Oh， the man didn t pay him
or anything like that. It wasn t a job he had to do，
; the way he had a lob to do here at the Labs. He
didn t do this so he could get paid for it. But he had
to do it. Claude tried to think exactly why.
He remembered the man had told him to. They
had talked a lot of t}mes， and sometimes the man
helped him work on his pick-up. Usually they
played a game with a swinging watch that made
~- \"Claude sleepy. The man could make him go to sleep
in the middle of the day. He didn t remember much
} about the games now.
But the man said he should sit in his pick-up in
1 the parking lot this morning after work until nine
o clock， so he was still there. His shi~t ended at
8:30--the night shift， maintenance. Usually he
would be home by now.
i His mother would worry about him. Claude was
It ~as - of the here at the Labs
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