The Green Progression by L E Modesitt Jr & Bruce Scott Levinson

Author:L E Modesitt Jr & Bruce Scott Levinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466890619
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

49

“CAL, DO YOU HAVE A MINUTE?”

The balding ecologist looked up from the calendar. “You look worried. For that, and because you usually bring cheer around here, you can have as many minutes as you like. But you had better close the door. Otherwise, Ray will be in here at least twice in the next five minutes.” His quick grin faded as he watched her face.

Veronica reached back and shut the door. Then she eased into the straight-backed chair across the desk from him.

“What’s on your mind?” Griffen leaned back in the creased leather swivel, steepling his hands across his flat stomach.

“Do you remember Peter—Peter Andrewson? He used to be a friend of Ray’s, I think.”

Griffen’s forehead creased; then he nodded slowly. “Didn’t he have a motorcycle? He always wanted some sort of extreme action. Struck me as very unstable. I told Ray to ease him out—that happened about the time you became an intern, I think.”

“He started his own group, and I went to the meetings for a while. Now he’s decided to dump radioactive dust in the creek beside the Fayettetown processing plant as part of the big protest there next month. I told him it was a crazy idea…”

“That’s insane,” reflected the deep-voiced environmentalist. “The last thing the movement needs is a poisoned water supply. What do you want me to do?”

Veronica took a deep breath. “I kept going to the meetings longer than I should. Originally, he was just going to scatter a little yellowcake dust around the fence. But a couple of days ago, he came up with this latest idea. He won’t listen. Now he says that he’s somehow going to document that I had something to do with it. If I go to the police, they either won’t believe me, or I’ll be tarred with the same brush. Is there anything else I can do?”

“Hmmmm … that boy is definitely unbalanced. Can’t have people doing things like that, you know. It’s bad for us. It’s one thing to lie in front of bulldozers or stop whalers who flaunt the international conventions. It’s another to actually damage the environment.”

Veronica waited.

“If you want, I think I can take care of this quietly, but I need some more information. If I do, your friend may end up in jail.”

“In jail? He deserves that … I suppose.”

Griffen nodded again. “Now … when is he…”

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