"Eric Frank Russell - With a Strange Device" - читать интересную книгу автора (Russell Eric Frank)

He goes there to help manage the place. As an exceptionally able chemical engineer he wouldn't know
which end of a cow does the mooing.'



`He can learn. He'd be doing it for love and money. It would be well worth the effort. I'd do the same
myself, given the chance.'



`AndHenderson ,' continued Bransome, ignoring the interruption.`Another case likeHaperny's .Took off
on a whim. I beard a rumour that sometime later he was found operating a hardware store out west'



`And I heard another rumour that immediately be was found he took off again,' said Berg.



`Which reminds me, talking of rumours.There was that one about Muller.Found shot. The verdict was
accidental death. Rumour said it was suicide. Yet Muller had no known reason to kill himself and
definitely he wasn't the type to be careless with a gun.'



`Are you suggesting that he was murdered7' asked Berg, raising his eyebrows.



`I'm suggesting only that his death was peculiar to say the least. For the matter of that, so wasArvanian's
a couple of months ago.Drove his car off a dockside and into forty feet of water. They said he must have
suffered a blackout. He was thirty-two, an athletic type and in good health. The blackout theory doesn't
look very plausible to me.'



`What are your medical qualifications?'



`None,' Bransome admitted.



` Well, the fellow who came up with the blackout notion was a fully qualified doctor. Presumably he
knew what he was talking about'
`I'm not saying he didn't. What I am saying is that he made an intelligent guess and not a diagnosis. A
guess is a guess no matter who makes it.'