"The stories were hushed up pretty fast, and the reason was that
Lunette was discovered just about then. They stopped talking about it
just as they stopped talking about atomic research after the Manhattan
project started."
"Listen, Captain, please," I said. "Beg pardon for interrupting, but
please don't tell me anything a civilian isn't supposed to know,
because--no offense--I don't want to get roped into the Army just
because I know too much."
"No offense to _you_, Peters--I'm not trying to get you into the Army."
He grinned, and I felt a lot better. "Let me go on. Yogi tells me that
he explained to you something about the Matter BARS. Did you understand
it?"
"Pretty well, sir. He should have been a teacher if he could make me
see a glimmer of light in that stuff."
The Captain laughed and Yogi got red.
"He was. Assistant Professor of Electronics at Columbia, before the
Signal Corps persuaded him to become a Space Cadet."
My face was red then.
"Well, on the military nature of our mission we have just a few more
wrinkles to iron out," the Captain went on, "but something else has
come up that we think has a lot more significance than guided missiles."
"I told the Captain I thought you'd help us," Yogi said, "because of
what you said about secret projects a while ago."
Now I _am_ confused. So I don't like so much secrecy, so they think I
can help their project? I don't get it. I don't get it at all.
"Yogi will explain the science part," the Captain said. "I'm just a
publicity man myself, not a teacher. But as a publicity man, Peters, I
think we can use you. Would you be game to try a job that could be very
important?"