Chapter 5

"Oh, that's all right," he said carelessly. "I don't want to put you to any trouble."

I realize now that under different circumstances that conversation might have been one of the crises of my life. But, because the offer was obviously and tactlessly for a service to be rendered, I had no choice except to cut him off there.

It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers, and set it back in place.