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Alice had some vague idea of where Dr. Baird’s laboratory was. She had only been there once, but she remembered it being on the third floor and thought she knew which direction to take once she got down there.
There were no signs directing people where to go. You either knew or you didn’t. You were escorted or you weren’t. Alice took several wrong turns. She passed one of the third-floor kitchens, empty, and the larger cafeteria where a few people sat at tables enjoying sandwiches and some kind of hot meal the cooks had made. The only thing that tempted Alice was the smell of fresh coffee. But not tempted enough to take a detour. She needed to find the lab.
Finally Alice came to a familiar door. She tried to open it, but it was locked. There was a bluish-white lighted square like the
