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."I don't know, Detective," he said, pushing back his chair and stretching."It's pretty obvious nowthat Matt did have something going on the side there are drugs here that I know we haven't used onany of the other projects.But as to what that other thing is, I really can't tell you.""Make an educated guess," Tirrell said."Surely you can do that.""I'm sure I can.But I'm not sure I should." Somerset eyed the detective thoughtfully."After all,this is Matt's private work, and without an official police request, my telling you anything at all putsme on rather thin legal ice.You understand what I'm saying?""Perfectly," Tirrell nodded, forcing his voice to remain calm and reasonable."At the same time,I'm sure you understand that in a police investigation time can be critically important.Of all of us hereI'm probably the one most familiar with the laws concerning privacy that's the main reason I askedMs.Mbar to read me the dates in the lab books, instead of looking through them myself.If you'dprefer to wait the couple of days it'll take to get proper authorization, that is of course your right.But itwould make things a lot easier if you could give me at least some idea of what Dr.Jarvis was doing."He held his breath as Somerset and Cam exchanged glances, but they didn't call his bluff, at leastnot directly."Why don't we call Dr.Jarvis and ask him about it?" Cam suggested."I don't think evenDr, Ramsden could object to interrupting him for this.""I don't think that would be a good idea," Tirrell shook his head, mind racing.The last thing hecould afford was someone tipping off Jarvis that they knew he'd been running a secret project.At best,it would give him time to hide or destroy anything he didn't want seen; at worst, it could spook himinto dropping into a hole so deep they might never find him.But it was clear he couldn't voice suchthoughts here."Radiophone conversations are by their nature more vulnerable to eavesdropping thanregular phone calls," he said, choosing his words carefully."If the wrong person heard what you saidthere could be real trouble."Vague intimations had worked once before, but this time Somerset wasn't giving in quite soeasily."What sort of trouble?" he asked stubbornly."You said yesterday you were trying to find thisOriana woman, but today you seem a lot more interested in Matt and his work.If we're going to helpyou, I think we're entitled to know what's going on."Tirrell took a deep breath.Somerset unfortunately had a point."All right.There's a possibilitythat Miribel Oriana is blackmailing Dr.Jarvis.Knowing what he's been working on may help usidentify who's involved." Which was, the detective decided, as misleading a set of true statements ashe'd ever heard.And it had the desired effect.Somerset's expression ran the complete gamut from surprise toanger to determination; Cam's got stuck somewhere in the vicinity of outraged shock."You'llunderstand now," Tirrell continued, "why I can't risk broadcasting any hint of my progress over theairwaves.In this game, the less your opponent knows of what you're doing, the better your chances ofaaTTnnssFFffooDDrrPPmmYYeeYYrrBB22.BBAAClick here to buyClick here to buywwmmwwoowwcc.AAYYBBYYBBr rnailing him.""Of course," Somerset nodded firmly."All right.Basically, it looks like Matt was doingsomething involving the maturation process.Some of these drugs" he indicated his list "are knownto slow down various aspects of puberty in earthstock lab animals.Others are synthetic androgensmale sex hormones and some rather hard to isolate pituitary hormones, all of which seem to play apart in growth and puberty.Um.there are a couple of carriers here, too those are relatively inertchemicals that can bond loosely to two or more complex molecules at a time.They're used when youwant to get a drug to a specific but inaccessible area the islets of the pancreas, for example withoutflooding the whole system.If you choose the carrier's grabber properly, you can get the whole thing tolink up with, say, the glucagon molecules in the islets' alpha cells
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