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Show -231- His xrriting went well. If not as b r i l l i a n t as he had imagined in his dream, the words flowed once he xas underxay, and he worked steadily for txro and a half hours. When he had finished, he xalked through the dressing room to the outside, then through the gate to the pool. The xater sparkled in the sunlight, inviting him to enter, but xrhen he knelt doxm and spUashed his fingertips through i t s surface, they tingled from the cold. The heat had been off for more than a month, and the winter sun's rays were too weak to xarm the xater. In fact, the sun xas even now beginning to leave the area. In half an hour i t xrould have disappeared behind the h i l l. As he turned to xalk out again, he saw the dog standing with her nose almost touching the s l a t s of the gate. He paused to scratch her head, then continued up the steps to the front of the house. In the l i t t l e floxrer garden below the x a l l, he saw a rosebush with some old hips.he had missed removing. He went in the front door to the house to get his shears, and just as he closed the door the phone rang. He answered and heard his daughter's voice. "Hello, Daddy. Are you enjoying your vacation?" He said he xas. At l e a s t , he xas trying to get used to i t . She said i t was such a nice day they thought they might drive over in a l i t t l e while. ^ They had to deliver something anyone to the theater, then, IfjMm xrere going to be home, she and her husband and the children xrould drive on to Marin County. The Professor was surprised his xrife had not got on the |