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Show -49- He went back in and curled again in his wife's chair. Sometime later, he heard shouting and splashing coming from the rear of the house, and he knew the neighbor was there with the children? Still later, his other neighbor arrived with the bowl of stew? and the Professor ate a few spoonsful? About alx-thirty in the evening, his wife called? She had been at the hospital all day with her sister. "Have you called the doctor?" she asked him? He said he hadn't? It was too late now? The clinic would be closed? Besides, the way he felt, he didn't dare drive. He had thought all day he would get over it? "You get to the hospital?" his wife said? "Go to the emergency ward? They have doctors there all the time? I'll get someone to drive you; and I'll get home as soon as I can?" |