He said, "I never told you what happened in that Phenol Case of mine
many years ago. It turned out that the man at the next bench had spilled
a little phenol on the bench top. That's what my inventor smelled; there
never was any phenol in the test tube. We all fall over the facts of a
case now and then." He squeezed my arm, and the rain did not seem to
fall quite as hard.
Transcriber's Note:
This etext was produced from _Analog_ September 1962. Extensive
research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on
this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical
errors have been corrected without note.