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Show 20 the findings - though of course they would all be recorded in detail and he would be able to study them later. She had attributed their silence to the natural squeamishness of those not accustomed to observing surgery, she said, and she quite understood. Besides, she guessed that Maia had grown fond of the dogs. Pass 4 It seems, then, that something must have upset them. Boaz was calm beforehand, calm and completely scientific, but afterwards he ran his car off the road -- a road he knew well -- in broad daylight, without speeding. And Maia? Wasn't she calm? She had been calm with the dogs that morning: she had done nothing unusual. She went out to the kennels, out behind the building, just as usual, quietly stepping through the early grass; the dogs heard her coming, and all twenty-three began to bark. She opened the wooden gate to the fence surrounding the kennels; the dogs leapt up, each in its own wire pen, to greet her. She began her duties at once, going from one pen to the next with the longhand!ed shovel, scooping out the little piles of excrement; then she hosed out the floors of the cages. Last she filled the dishes with water and with food, though she did not fill the dishes in the cages of Mustard, or Theresa, or Pablo. She walked the three back, each tugging in a different direction on its leash, across the lawn to the laboratory. |