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Fischer was tall and thin, with blond hair that was slowly lightening to white and once fair skin that had been tanned by the sun sohis blue eyes stand out He wore a gray sport coat that looked weather-beaten, with a dark blue silk scarf hanging loose from his neck He shook Sam’s hand and kissed Re toward the exit from the terminal that Albrecht Fischer spoke about his find

“I’ you so little on the telephone I think you’ll understand when you see what I’ve brought to Germany”

“This isn’t where

it came from?” asked Remi

“No,” he said “At the site, I sensed I was being watched I needed to do lab work and examinations, but I didn’t dare do theues at Humboldt and at the Free University who have letin the office of a colleague who is on leave and using the shower in his chemistry lab”

“Why not just go back to your own lab at Heidelberg?”

“A bit of a ruse to throw off anyone who s while I was at work, and I’ve found that when you think you’re being watched, you usually are”

Fischer took them outside the terminal, where he hailed a cab that took them to the Hotel Adlon Kempinski While Sam checked them in, Remi took in the beauty of the hotel—the ornate carpets, fine furniture, vaulted ceiling—but she also noticed that Albrecht Fischer’s eyes wereand going through the lobby He was agitated, i else He seemed to be afraid Sae, then rejoined Reo up?”

Reood professor has been working on”

Albrecht brightened “Yes, please do I know you’re probably tired fro myself quiet about this until I’m half mad And the lab isn’t far”

Salance, and Sao” They stepped outside, and the doornaled a cab and opened the door for them Albrecht waited until the door was closed to say, “Humboldt University, please” The cab let them off only a few blocks away at the statue of Frederick the Great in front of theof the university on Unter den Linden

They walked quickly into a building that seelass ith nu people inside, wearing lab coats and wandering a black boxes with screens, stands that held chees and spectro into each lab Reh points of your college years”

“What do you ht all Ao to parties”

“Sam went to Caltech They worked in labs, then drank beer and went to parties”

“I was just thinking about some of the people ent to this university There was one student as pro—a kid named Albert Einstein”