What a new beginning.

Enjoy..

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Julius Hampton was a brilliant chemist. He was, in fact, brilliant in all things, but he liked chemistry best. The order and symmetry of it called out to his logical mind in the beginning, but his brilliance reveled in the possibilities of the endless combinations, interactions and reactions of otherwise totally predictable elements.

Stewart Chemical allowed him great leeway in what he spent his time doing. The old man that had hired him was pedantic and dogmatic about the business and had held a tight rein on his ability to be creative. The greatest leap of insight the old fart had ever had was...