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Show - 2 2 6 - that had been created." The Professor's wife got up and carried her pan of shelled nuts into the kitchen. The Professor stared into the f i r e . He was tempted to think of the part f i r e played in alleviating those fears of early man, but his mind xas weary. He contented himself with merely watching the twisting play of the flames. His wife returned. "Don't you think i t ' s about bedtime?" she asked. He said i t xas. "Did you put the dog doxm?" she asked him. He said he had. "You go on in," he told her. "I'll lock up, then I'll be in." He was suddenly overcome with xreariness, as he so often felt these days. He leaned forward and pulled the screen across the f i r e , but then he slumped back on the settee. The two doors he had to check, the front door and the door to the patio, seemed miles axay. His wife had l e f t the door to the bedroom open, and he could hear xater running in her bathroom. He saxr that he had one swalioxr l e f t in his glass. He picked i t up and drained i t. Then he got up and walked to the front door, then to the patio door, then into the l i t t l e bathroom off the bar-room. He xashed his hands and splashed hot xater on his face. It felt good and somewhat revived him. He had forgotten to take his nightly leak. He did so, then xashed his hands again and brushed his teeth. |
