Caretaker

"Hey." William strides forward. The glint in his eye sends Claudia back a step. "I am caretaker here. My job is to make sure that when the anthropology team comes back next summer, everything is shipshape. Right?"

"Oh," murmurs Claudia.

"It took me quite a while, actually, to crate everything up, eh?" he goes on. "So no one touches them except for me. Is that understood?"

"Yes," you say.

"Right," agrees Claudia. "No mucking about."

"Good," he nods. Then, slipping the crowbar out of Claudia's hands, he jams it under the crate lid, and with one quick motion sends it flying.

An Access Excellence Science Mystery sponsored by Genentech, Inc.
Copyright © 1997 Genentech, Inc.; all rights reserved.