"Help her? I thought. Certainly Carol wasn't going to try something with her friend right here, was she? I lay on my belly. Carol poured the lotion st...aight onto my back, and when the cool liquid hit my skin I flinched. Then I felt Carol's warm hands begin to spread the lotion across my shoulders. She rubbed up and down the length of my back and around to my sides, and after a few minutes her action was more of a massage than anything else. It began to feel really nice, so I just lay there. ...and if they stilldid that I would be just as outraged."Unfortunately the bell rang and ended the class."Very well, we'll take this up next class," stated Professor Crowe."Don't forget to read chapter seven for next time."Marshall picked up his things and headed out of the classroom. He wasvery proud of himself in that he held his own in a classroom discussion.Abdul watched Marshall and the others leave the class as he slowlysimmered. The boy had insulted his culture and he must be punished. . When they heard the Hum. The Taos Hum, they call it. Government conspiracy, they say. Weather modification experiments. Weapons tests. Some secret submarine base at the South Pole. Big machines tunneling under the earth. Something alive living below the crust. Almost as many reasons for the Hum as there are people who hear it.”“Is it bullshit?”“I dunno. The people who call in, on the radio show, they sure seem to believe it. And it doesn’t ruin everyone’s life. Some people who hear it, they. "Yeah," I answered meekly. "Ah don't sweat it. Different strokes for different folks I guess," he chuckled as he walked back down the aisle. The rest of the night went without incident, Leo saying nothing about the pantyhose at all. Waiting out the clock we spent the last half hour talking. Leo, again, holding most of the conversation. I learned during Leo's time on the road and rails he was quite promiscuous. "Nailing anything with a hole in it some nights," as he put it. The shift bell rang,.