Four hours later, Professor Donaldson pushed his chair back from the table and raised his arms over his head to stretch as though he had just eaten too much at Thanksgiving. Wagner and I were still going through the pages of my notebook and discussing my work excitedly.
"This is the best thing since sliced graphs!" Professor Wagner declared. "You understand that this approach can be applied to a great many problems. It's not just applicable to Donaldson's issue. I take back what I said about Cheshire Elementary. Apparently, their math program is even better than their physics program!"
"You've found a real keeper here, Donaldson. This kid will keep you in grant money until you're my age."
"So, about that," I started hesitantly, "as it happens, I don't need grants. I need researchers."
"What do you mean?" Donaldson asked.
"I mean that funding is not a problem, I need researchers to work on certain practical applications of a related concept that I've been developing."
