Hank Jeter

Hank Jeter was a big, bulky black man who looked like a defensive lineman. He was a physicists who worked in a laboratory near Southbridge, Massachusetts. There he met and became friends with Irv Farmer.

One afternoon, during an experiment at the lab, a car knocked down a power pole nearby, cutting power to the building. A back-up generator kicked in, re-energizing the equipment but the lights were not on the circuit leaving the windowless room pitch black. At that moment, Jeter was checking the time on his great grandfather's pocket watch but things went dark before he could read it. Someone retrieved a flashlight and the beam hit Jeter's eyes like a flare. As the section chief ordered everyone to leave the building, Jeter put his watch away and left the building. By the time everyone regrouped in the parking lot, it was quarter past four so the section chief sent a couple of people back in to shut down the experiment and everyone else home. Jeter and Farmer went to their favorite hang-out, The Lair for a drink.