Wonderful, he thought, in sudden rage. Deutsch hired himself a hundred-thousand-dollar handyman! “Christ,” he muttered. He shouted, “Christ!” He’d been the most powerful physical medium in the United States in 1940—and at fifteen. Fifteen! Now, at forty-five, he was a goddamned, self-deluding parasite, malingering his way through the week in order to collect a hundred thousand dollars. Him! The one who should be doing the most!
