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[Angrily]

Well, I won’t accept it—and that’s final!

[Coldly]

It’s not left to you but to the Station. Your supervision is mentioned but I suppose if you won’t carry on, whoever is in real charge down there will be only too glad to accept it.

[Stupefied]

That means Preston! But Sam didn’t even know Preston—except from hearing me talk about him! What had Sam to do with Preston? Preston is none of his business! I’ll advise Preston to refuse it!

[Thinking torturedly]

But it’s for science! he has no right to refuse! I have no right to ask him to! God damn Sam! wasn’t it enough for him to own my wife, my son, in his lifetime? now in death he reaches out to steal Preston! to steal my work!

[Thinking bitterly]

Even in death Sam makes people suffer

[Sympathetically]

It isn’t for you—nor for Preston. It’s for science, Ned. You must look at it that way.