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    The Cube
    The Cube
    The Cube
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    The Cube

    By D. E. Harrison

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    Fenwick sells cars and goes to school at night. An old man stumbles into the lot looking for lorries. Fenwick sees how much he has to spend. Then his attractive female assistant arrives to look over the lorries. Finally, two lorries are sold. Fenwick agrees to drive some students out to the Stonehenge dig site.
    Several days later he gets off work to drive a bus and lorries to the dig. He can’t afford to quit the car lot job. He and Sabrina need the job to live.
    A mistake in setting the lines results in the dig finding a strange cube of metal, one-foot square. Fenwick is schooling in metals and he helps dig it up and uses both lorries to get out of the hole. It goes to a research firm to discover what it is. It weights over 5-ton, and no one can explain it,
    A physicist and geologist can not explain anything about it or when it was placed at Stonehenge. The last attempt to discover what it is, uses a new laser beam with no effect. One thing they might know is that it a collector of radiation?
    Fenwick bets Miss Finnimore he can find the other cubes. She bets fish and chips, then a home cooked fish meal, and lastly a T&T session with all three of them, Fenwick, Miss Finnimore and Sabrina.
    When ask how he did it, “The cubes are in a reverse Fibonacci sequence.”
    Miss Finnimore cooks the meal and is not prepared when Sabrina half saunters, half parades into the kitchen with not a stich on.
    What is to become of the cube or for that matter Miss Finnmore?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. E. Harrison
    Release dateDec 9, 2018
    ISBN9780463175866
    The Cube
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    D. E. Harrison

    I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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      The Cube - D. E. Harrison

      The Cube

      By D. E. Harrison

      Copyright 2007 by D. E. Harrison

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 The Tele

      Chapter 2 Third Day at Work

      Chapter 3 May be a Customer

      Chapter 4 The Negotiations Start

      Chapter 5 The First Trip to Stonehenge

      Chapter 6 More digging Something Found

      Chapter 7 True North is Wrong, Something is Found

      Chapter 8 Dig Out the Cube

      Chapter 9 Move the Cube to the Flatbed

      Chapter 10 The Cube goes to the Material and Maintenance Site

      Chapter 11 Fenwick Goes Home

      Chapter 12 Testing the Cube

      Chapter 13 Back to Stonehenge

      Chapter 14 The Wager

      Chapter 15 Fenwick goes Homes again

      Chapter 16 Back to the Cube Again

      Chapter 17 Paying Off the Wager

      Epilogue

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      Chapter 1 The Tele

      Fenwick Dimblely turns to Sabrina in the late 20th century. They are watching the Discovery Channel from America on the Tele about lions. It was either the cable system or a new couch, the couch lost.

      Fenwick mutters, There are so many choices, I am glad it is my turn next. There is a replay of the game from last night.

      Sabrina in her typical way of saying something without saying it, You saw the last few minutes last night, then the high lights this morning. Isn’t that enough?

      They have been together for six months and Fenwick is still in the training phase. Although he is starting to learn valuable lessons like, leave the seat down, no dirty clothes on the floor, all food put away. Sabrina is also learning that men are hard to train and there are frequent relapses.

      Fenwick starts the game, sees a few high lights, and becomes bored but will not admit it. Sabrina curls up in his lap waiting for him to weaken and return to the lions. But the lions are over, and the next show is on as Sabrina’s eyes are almost closed. As the show ends, Sabrina has a big yawn but never opens her eyes.

      Fenwick has an unusual comment, since it is out loud after the show is over, I always wondered about how they got those big rocks to stand, I suppose they could do it that way. They sure do assume a lot. They tell it like they were there watching.

      Sabrina stirs a little and Fenwick knows he has spoken to loud. When he moves some Sabrina wakes up and saunters off to the bedroom. She is asleep before Fenwick comes in after a quick clean up, and a glass of milk. The bottle goes outside the door for the morning float pickup.

      Fenwick sells used cars but is a little too honest for his own good. But he has never had a customer come back and complain. He is going to school at night with one-day time class. The car lot job fits his schedule; they have enough to live on until he passes the examinations.

      Fenwick leaves to go to work before Sabrina is up. After work, he is in school until well after dark. Going out of the school library, he passes a book display on Stonehenge. He stops, picks up a book with lots of pictures and checks it out. He wonders why on the bus going home. It is large and heavy. Fenwick has enough homework this night to keep him busy until he turns in. Sabrina loses interest with the Tele and leaves Fenwick to study alone.

      At breakfast, Fenwick spends several hours at the kitchen table with homework before finishing. Sabrina bothers him a little by rubbing his leg with her chin then leaves him alone. Fenwick usually takes school material to work to study on at lunch but this day he is free. He will turn in the homework in two days, so he grabs the Stonehenge book and tells Sabrina he is going. She hardly moves from the old couch but does raise her head as he leaves. Sabrina’s day has no commitments, so she will lounge around the house today.

      Fenwick starts the Stonehenge book on the tube but can only look at the pictures. On the Metro bus, he can skim the book a little easier. Arriving at work, he puts the book away and cleans the cars some, making sure there are no punctures. Around 10 am, he has a break and there are never any customers this early to kick any tires. He now opens the Stonehenge book to study it, just like any school assignment. He reads twice the front page, which gives the copyright information, and all that other stuff people never bother to look at.

      After the break, the boss comes in to look around then he goes to lunch. Fenwick makes several passes through the car lot then goes to lunch, which he made this morning. Sabrina is still asleep at home. He eats and reads during lunch.

      After lunch he has a customer looks at several cars. He carefully puts the conversation down on the note cards the boss uses and the cars they looked at. He puts them in the file and waits for the boss to return so he can go to class.

      Chapter 2 Third Day at Work

      Wednesday is Fenwick’s late night at school. Sabrina tries to stay up

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