Doctor Mary Allen knew that Dodd was troubled. Three times now he had fended off a plan to either kidnap or kill her, all because she was finding a cure to keep her country and its people safe. The Mary of high school and college might have crumbled and would have been incapable of functioning, but this was a new her, and though it could be weighty on your state of mind, she was fulfilled that the path she had taken was just and no amount of intimidations could make her back down. Men, women, and children would lose their lives and she did not want to even imagine the looks of income and devastation that would follow. She was wholly grateful that she personally had these retinues of agents protecting her, a privilege the ordinary man on the streets did not enjoy and they were the ones to f
