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listen to them talk and try to figure them out. You know, why they said what they did, why they hid so much. You might say that while you were doing research on medical science I was doing it direct in human beings. So I found out that everything depended on what I believed. Perhaps they were trying to deceive me, perhaps it was themselves ^' they needed to fool' at any rate, for me at that time everything depended on what I ^'could' believe. I didn't want to get fooled at least not too much. I suppose perhaps that was what made me needle the teacher - I thought she was deceiving me. And when I finished my formal education I went through law school and then for a while I kept busy matching wits."

    "That accounts for the impression I got when I opened 

your door, that you were trying to worm something out of me, some fascinating conspiracy. And I began to get a little nervous wondering whether you would find one even when it wasn't there. Are you always as kind to suspects, Inspector?"

   "I didn't suspect you.  I was just interested in you.  And

I've learned that courtesy is often easiest way. It puts the fires out, or at least banks them, so you can go ahead with the business of the day."

   "Thinking about what you just said about believing

people brings to my mind an experience of my own in recent years. I was attending ^'a meeting of' one of the high power research societies, possibly five or six years ago, at which a paper was given by a well-known group which I happened to know personally rather well. It was a report having to do, as I remember, with a tumor of the adrenal gland allegedly involving only the cells which secreted a substance known as aldosterone. The authors described the manifestations, clinical and laboratory, which they said to have been associated with this unusual tumor and they offered as supporting evidence, amounts of aldosterone found in the patient's urine. They took pains to acknowledge the collaborative