"Cat Magic" - читать интересную книгу автора (Strieber Whitley)

"Constance wouldn't like that."

"No, and she doesn't like this either."

"You're doing it."

"She might not like our work, but she appreciates the

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'alecessity, at least. That's more than I can say for the
Stohlmeyer people. Sometimes I think they're secret follow-
ers of Brother Pierce."

"God, don't bring him up. I don't want my hands to
shake while Pm working."

A silence fell among the three people in the lab. They all
knew the eventual object of their experiment, the goal given
them five years ago by Constance Collier: to kill a human
being and return him or her back to life. Her goal. her
program,

But Constance didn't like all the animal killing they had to do
to succeed. "I feel every one of those deaths," she had told
George. "Maybe I've made a mistake. Maybe you ought to
stop."

He would never stop. He had pursued this goal at Yale and
destroyed his career mere. He would pursue it at Maywell
and drag his name up out of the mud. He was going to
vindicate himself in this little backwater. One day this college
would be famous because of what he had done here.
' The technician, dark, finally spoke. "Okay, folks, I'm
ready to proceed."

"I'm set," said Dr. Walker.

"Bonnie, how about the audiovisual?" dark asked.

"Up and running."

"Right. Here we go. Beginning the count. Five."

The frog felt heavy, as if it were buried in mud. Heavy
and smothering. Its heart began to beat harder.

"Four."