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Show -3«- he could get a good start on the writing of his book, and he had written only one paragraph? He decided to clean the leaves from the pool deck. He went upstairs to change clothes; then fetched a rake and a broom from beneath an overhang on the east side of the house. As he carried them to the pool, he paused to let ifcheir black and tan shepherd bitch out of her run. She romped playfully and gratefully beside him until he reached the pool gate, where she stopped? still wagging her tall but knowing she was not allowed on the deck where he was going to work. The location of the pool was such that it got full sun in the morning, but by afternoon the shadow of the hills crept over one side until the sun emerged again to set in a depression between two hills?' giving them another hour of sunlight? Now one half the pool was in sunlight? the other in shadow? This was the time of day his wife, had she been here? would have been in swimming? She had the fair skin of the English and Scotch? from whom she was discended? so she didn't tan? but freckled and burned when the sun was full on her? When they swam together this time of day, the Professor? whom the sunlight didn't burn? swam on the sunny aide? his wife in the shadow? The Professor didn't bother 4ith the leaves in the pool? A pool man came once a week to clean it and to take care of the chemicals and equipment? The pool was surrounded by trees, bays and deciduous oaks that screene&heh»T®a?ea from the road? At the entrance, by the house? stood a California buckeye? its |