The Pendans Box

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Now that Professor Aldous Pendaniels is dead, and in a way you might say hoist with his own whatever-you-call-it, but at least beyond the reach of any of the patients he treated by fastening the Pendans Boxes on them, it is only fair to the memory of a man who was nothing if not eager, to tell the world the story behind his death. To some it must have looked like an ordinary death, but it was really shot through with drama — and that is why, with the help of Marg, who is at least talking to me again, though many of the words she says are unkind, I am setting down here the history of Professor Aldous Pendaniels and the Pendans Boxes which he expected would alter the course of civilization — and damn’ near did.

Mr. Genesee Miller is my boss, and a Captain of Industry and a millionaire and a right guy in spite of it all. I drive for him; usually the custom sedan, but once in a while the town car, which I don’t care much for as it leaves me out in the open and sort of out of things. Mr. Miller owns the estate at Little Palms, Florida, the model farm in Handy, Connecticut, he house in Westchester, and rents the triplex on Central Park West. In addition, of course, there is Miller Construction, Miller Motors, Miller Oil, Miller Distributors and the Miller Foundation.

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