Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695)

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If Huygens had lied about his relationship with Spaen, what else had he lied about?

Nicolaes Huygens sat with Assistant Director deGraeff and their three colleagues.

But the seventeen-year-old Nicolaes Huygens had cared nothing for studies.

Yet Huygens continued his debauchery, until it culminated in the act that had bound him to Jan Spaen.

Now Huygens forgot Jan Spaen, Sano, and the past as his professional self took command.

Washing the blood from the injury, Huygens saw that it was deep and serious.

From his medical kit, Huygens took a thin needle and a long human hair.

The men wanted to know if Huygens meant to violate the Dog Protection Edict, their bizarre law that favored animal life over human.

Amsterdam, Huygens had left the lecture hall one evening with a group of colleagues, and spied, standing in the vestibule, a ghost from the past.

And Huygens realized that Spaen had at last come to collect on his debt.

Day after day, Huygens endured his jovial conversation at mealtimes, seething with bitter resentment.

For a moment Huygens felt the elation that saving a life always brought him.

If Investigator Sano learned the truth about Huygens, he would look no further for the killer of Jan Spaen.

Clumsily Huygens dropped to his knees before Sano, hands clasped in entreaty.