My Uncle Oswald by Dahl Roald

Author:Dahl, Roald [Dahl, Roald]
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2010-01-29T22:38:07+00:00

(Signed) _A. R. Woresley_

_Lecturer in Chemistry,_

_Cambridge University_

I showed it to Yasmin. "Obviously it doesn't apply to Woresley," I said, "because his stuff isn't going into the freezer. But what do you think of it otherwise? Will it look all right over the signature of kings and geniuses?"

She read it through carefully. "It's good," she said. "It'll do nicely."

"I've won my bet," I said. "Woresley will have to capitulate now."

She sat sipping her gin. She was relaxed and amazingly cool. "I have a strange feeling," she said, "that this whole thing's actually going to work. At first it sounded ridiculous. But now I can't see what's to stop us."

"Nothing can stop us," I said. "You'll win every time so long as you can always reach your man and feed him the powder."

"It really is fantastic stuff."

"I found that out in Paris."

"You don't think it might give some of the very old ones a heart attack, do you?"

"Of course not," I said, although I had been wondering the same thing myself.

"I don't want to leave a trail of corpses around the world," she said. "Especially the corpses of great and famous men."

"You won't," I said. "Don't worry about it."

"Take for example Alexander Graham Bell," she said. "According to you, he is now seventy-two years old. Do you think _he_ could stand up to it?"

"Tough as nuts," I said. "All the great men are. But I'll tell you what we might do if it'll make you feel a bit easier. We'll regulate the dose according to age. The older they are, the less they'll get."

"I'll buy that," she said. "It's a good idea."

I took Yasmin out and treated her to a superb dinner at the Blue Boar. She deserved it. Then I delivered her safely back to Girton.

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