Adam and the Paradise Garden by Peter Gilbert & Tom Holt

Author:Peter Gilbert & Tom Holt [Gilbert, Peter & Holt, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Acolyte Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

13.

“Who will be next?”

Had Adam heard the question, he could have assured them that they had nothing to fear.

He was sitting in an expensive flat in London, dressed in new clothes which cost a great deal of money. He was with a boy of about his own age: dark haired, very sunburned, and so good looking as to excite the attention of nearly everybody who saw him, male and female. He was dressed, like Adam, in the very latest designer clothes. He spoke English with a strong French accent.

Richard's plan had- worked perfectly. It had been easy to get away from the school party and slip out of the museum and into Richard's waiting car.

Richard had warned him that the professor - the man doing the research on intelligence and physical development - wanted to see him and that it would involve at least twelve hours of medical examinations and intelligence tests.

No medical examination, no examination of any sort, is a pleasant affair for the examinee, but Adam had liked the Professor from the start. He was an elderly man; his field was genetics. He was rather fat, had a bald head and wore thick glasses. He lent a sympathetic ear to the boy's opinions as he prodded, poked, listened, and took samples. Adam talked. The only time when Adam's speech dried up was when he was pedaling furiously on an exercise bicycle with a tube in his mouth, a clip on his nose and electrodes stuck all over his body.

Laurent, his French companion, had arrived on Saturday morning and Adam had taken to him at once. Like Adam, he scorned most of the human race. They had spent the afternoon looking out of the windows of the Professor's flat and inventing appropriately grisly fates for most of the people in the street below them.

Laurent mentioned a house party. It was the reason for his visit to London. Every year, a friend of the Professor's gave a party. Laurent left Adam in no doubt as to the nature of the party. At first Adam said that he would not go, but when he heard that Pete Clegwith would be there, he changed his mind. Adam didn't have 'idols', as many weaker-minded teenagers had, but he concurred with the opinion that Pete Clegwith was the world's greatest living guitarist. “It's an opportunity I just can't miss.”

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