His call. The telephone imps reproduced his voice even more blurrfly than is their habit; he must have been eating some- thing when he answered. After a sentence or two he spoke more clearly: "Hello Inspector Fisher. Thanks for returning my call. I wanted to get back to you about some preliminary results of the extinction investigation. " "Go ahead " I said grabbing for a pencil and a scrap of parchment. "What have you learned?" "Not as much as I'd like " he answered: yes he was a pro- fessor. "The... read more