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He just continued to study the lazed--not with shock, but in deep concentration

Elizabeth had given Gray a quiet shake of her head

Don’t press hi for the capital of India, New Delhi During the ninety- the way

Once they reached the teeiven only one instruction: I need access to a computer

So here they were, in a cramped back rooed on to a private address on the University of Mu three levels of code to access it

"Archibald’s research," Masterson had explained and had begun printing it all out He had remained silent until this cryptic state the future

"How do you mean?" Gray asked

Masterson pushed back from his workstation "Well, many people don’t know this, but it’s been scientifically proven in the last couple of years that man has the ability to see a short span into the future About three seconds or so"

"Three seconds?" Kowalski said "Lot of good that’ll do you"

"It does plenty," Masterson replied

Gray frowned at Kowalski and turned back to the professor "But what do you mean by scientifically proven?"

"Are you falance with Elizabeth "The project Dr Polk worked on for a while"

"Another researcher on the project, Dr Dean Radin, performed a series of experiments on volunteers He wired thean showing thees on a screen A rando photos The violent and explicit i response on the lie detector, an electronic wince After a few e would appear on the screen, reacting up to three seconds in advance It happened ti Nobel Prize winners, repeated these tests at both Edinburgh and Cornell universities With the same statistical results"

Elizabeth shook her head with disbelief "How could that be?"

Masterson shrugged "I have no idea But the experiaan showing the sa seconds before a card would turn over A positive response when the turn was favorable, and negative when it wasn’t This so intrigued a Nobel-winning physicist froe University that he perfor such test subjects to MRI scanners in order to study their brain activity He found that the source of this premonition seemed to lie in the brain This Nobel Prize winner--and keep in mind, not some bloody quack--concluded that ordinary people can see for short spans into the future"

"That’s a," Elizabeth said

Masterson fixed her with a steady stare "It’s what drove your father," he said gently "To determine how and why this could be If ordinary people could see for three seconds into the future, why not longer? Hours, days, weeks, years For physicists, such a concept is not beyond comprehension Even Albert Einstein once said that the difference between the past and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion Time is just another di forward or backward along a path So why not along tiirl Her charcoal sketch of the Taj Mahal If h tireat distances? He remembered Director Crowe’s statement about the successes the CIA project had with re

"All it would take," Masterson said, "would be to find those rare individuals who could see farther than the ordinary To study theirl

Elizabeth passed the last page from the printer to the stack She handed it to Masterson "My father…he was looking for these rare individuals"

"No,for them"

Elizabeth’s eyes pinched in confusion

Masterson patted her hand "Your father found them"

Gray perked up "What?"

A knock on the door interrupted the professor before he could explain Kowalski shifted, checked who it was, and opened the door

Rosauro poked in her head and passed to Gray a heavy set of rental keys "All done in here?"

"No," Gray answered

Masterson bowled past him with an armload of papers under his arm "Yes, we are"

Gray rolled his eyes and waved to the others "C’ the irascible professor

Kowalski kept to Gray’s side "He’s just getting even," the largestick under Masterson’s other arm "For what you did to his cane"