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Show -15- He even tried to put out of his mind the depressing thought of the damage done to his house. Fortunately, their tenants had insisted upon bringing their own furniture, so all of the Professor's possessions were stored in a back bedroom, piled celling high as if in the interior of a van. Later he would have to pull out a bed for them to sleep on tonight, as well as a few dishes to eat from in the morning. They would eat out tonight, at one of the good little restaurants below them in the town. Meanwhile; however, the Professor opened one of the bottles of bonded whiskey he had brought, duty free, off the ship. He searched through the nearest boxes in the bedroom until he had located some glasses, poared three drinks, and carried them down to the pool, where the heavy redwood pool furniture seemed relatively unhurt? where they could sit sipping their drinks and visiting with his sister-in-law. They had scarcely settled themselves when a couple with two young children appeared at the head of the stone steps leading to the pool? It was the family of one of the Professor's colleagues from the city, one of those who had been his student at graduate school in the Midwest? "Yoo-hoo!" the wife called? "We saw the car and thought it might be you. Welcome back!" The Professor had been a relatively young man, in his late thirties, when he had chaired his colleague's committee for his Ph.D? orals? They had been friends before and since? |