n a preventative war as soon as they learned
of its existence."

"You a red?" Crowley said, scowling.

The doctor shrugged hopelessly. "No," he said.

Crowley turned to the other two. "If you think it's the patriotic thing
to do, why don't one of you sell it to the government?"

Patricia said testily, "You don't understand, Don. Even if we were so
thoroughly in disagreement that we would act unilaterally, we couldn't.
You see, this is a three-way discovery. No one of us knows the complete
process."

His face twisted. "Look, maybe some of this egghead stuff doesn't get
through to me but I'm not stupid, see? You got the stuff, haven't you?
You gave me that shot this morning."

Braun took over, saying reasonably, "Don, this discovery was hit upon by
accident. The three of us are employed in the laboratories of a medical
research organization. I am the department head. Patricia and Ross were
doing some routine work on a minor problem when they separately stumbled
upon some rather startling effects, practically at the same time. Each,
separately, brought their discoveries to me, and, working you might say
intuitively, I added some conclusions of my own, and ... well, I repeat,
the discovery was stumbled upon."

Crowley assimilated that. "None of you knows how to do it, make those
injections like, by himself?"

"That is correct. Each knows just one phase of the process. Each must
combine with the other two."

Patricia said impatiently, "And thus far we wish to keep it that way.
Rossie believes the discovery should be simultaneously revealed on a
world-wide basis, and let man adapt to it as best he can. I think it
should be suppressed until man has grown up a little--if he ever does.
The doctor vacillates between the two positions. What he would truly
like to see, is the method kept only for the use of qualified
scientists, but even our good doctor realizes what a dream that is."

Crowley took them all in, one at a time. "Well, what the devil are you
going to do?"

"That's a good question," Ross said unhappily.

"This experiment was a farce," Patricia said irritably. "After all our
trouble locating Don, our _Common Man_, we have found out nothing that
we didn't know before. His reactions were evidently largely similar to
our own and...." She broke it off and frowned thoughtfully. The other
three looked at her questioningly.

Patricia said, "You know, we simply haven't seen this thing through as
yet."

"What