The Bizarre Adventures of Doctor Who

Flip of A Coin Pt. 4

Scouring through the papers and books, Theodore looked for any clues regarding Professor Stanford. There's published articles by Professor Stanford, Theodore read through them only to find that they're standard as articles goes, and that even by looking at them multiple times, he doesn't see anything of interest. Flipping through books, Theodore tried to find any published work about Professor Stanford believing in "curing" the human mind of any conditions.

It's showing the more he looked that Professor Stanford knew better to talk openly about these things, as he'd know people would take notice, and investigate him if necessary.

Going through records by the university, he started working over twenty years ago, got his tenure around the fifteenth mark, and it looked like the professor hadn't gone through the changes that he did, because it looked like a standard psychology class.

Somewhere between then and now, he changed and decided to test matters which he believed would cure people, and he's testing them on his few students because only a few signed up for his class. If it were a full class, Theodore doubted he'd try anything with them because of the chances of someone telling the world of his crimes.

There's a newspaper where it detailed a bizarre confrontation the professor had with a trustee during a party and him vowing to prove the trustee wrong. The newspaper doesn't know what the confrontation's about, but afterwards the trustee hadn't reappeared and Professor Stanford working on a new thesis.

Presumably what he's using now and Theodore wanted to know more about the confrontation as he looked for anything pointing to the right direction while he combed through pages of papers and books.

He ended up asking the old librarian, in her 70s if she knew anything about the fight and she revealed to him that she only caught it briefly, as she tended the drink bar at the time. She warned him that her memory's not as good as it used to be and the confrontation happened over fifteen years ago.

"We had a trustee, lord knows where he is now, but he was a very powerful nobleman, and he questioned the authenticity of Professor Stanford's work. He said, well, I can't remember much, my age and all, but I distinctly remember him calling Professor Stanford a "well-dressed cur" and it got heated. Professor Stanford swore he'd prove him wrong," said Lydia, the old librarian, as she pushed up her readers as she looked up at Theodore.

Theodore inquired more about the trustee, Lydia didn't view him favourably, said he'd always had a stuffy attitude. A gentleman, nevertheless, but someone who isn't afraid to question everyone and everything, considering how much he paid into the university, it was his right, but he had ways of digging if he suspected something amiss.

"Do you remember his name, by chance?" Theodore asks her.

Pondering as she sat in her high-chair, Lydia struggles before telling Theodore that she couldn't remember it because it sounded too foreign for her ears that she hardly said it at all during the time he was present in the university, just because she couldn't pronounce it.

"Oh dear, how did it go?" Lydia tried to think of the pronunciation of the trustee's name and it only came out garbled as she tried to sound it out. "Ah... Al... ha... hm."

She struggled before giving up, saying that with his accent, it made it hard to remember. When Theodore asked about the accent, she said that she couldn't recognize it to save her life. It's unique, that much she knows, and it's nothing she heard before in her long years.

When asked about appearance, Lydia said that he was as tall as Theodore, wide shoulders, always wore black fitted suits, kept his peppered hair combed and oiled. His goatee, as well, and his eyes.