Jessica looked at the little pile of blue powder. It seemed to be in the right location to have come from a car trunk. In her purse she found an old bill and used the envelope to collect some of the blue powder.
An hour later she was in the home lab of her friend Doctor Jeffrey Atkens, a Chemistry professor at the community college. "It might be a copper salt," Jeffrey said. "Some copper compounds have a blue color. But that would be a guess. I'll have to do a complete qualitative analysis to determine what it is."
"How long will that take?" Jessica asked.
"For you I'll stay up all night. I'll have it in the morning."
"That's great, Doc!"
"And... uh... Jessica... Do you suppose you and I can have dinner together Friday night?"
Jessica was ready with an answer. She had suspected their might be a price. She said...
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