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Show -96-. to himself. The dog gave him a last quizzical look and then settled back against the wall. A vote was taken on the new motion, and it passed with only the Black and the labor member voting against it. The Professor got up and angrilly switched off the set. As he walked into the hallway, he heard his wife saying. "All right? I'll be down there first thing in the morning." Something in the tone of her voice sounded an alarm. He had been on his way to pour himself a drink, but he paused to listen? "I'll either take a bus or i'll ride as far as the university and take one from there?" Her sister was ill again? He could tell. "is it - ? " he asked as his wife replaced the receiver. "Yes? She's back in the hospital. I guess you heard. I have to go down." She had been talking to her sister's husband. He was something of an alarmist? so she didn't know what to think?*^ "I wish I were there now," she said. "What could you do - by the time you got there - ? " She nodded. "Maybe I ought to c a l l the family." She meant her brothers and s i s t e r s in Utah. "Wouldn't i t be b e t t e r to wait u n t i l a f t e r you've seen her?" |