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Show -55- pillow? This propping seemed to lessen the pain of his coughing? Also? the Professor could almost feel the medicine begin to work. Soon he fell asleep, but it seemed no time at all, before his friend was bending over him with another pill and another glass of water? after which he slept again? This routine was repeated twice more, before the Professor's wife arrived?' shortly after nine o'clock? By now the pain had almost disappeared? remained only as a dull persistent ache. The Professor asked his wife about her sister, but there was not much she could report? "Isn't it a hell of a thing, this happening now?" he said? "I'm sorry you had to come back this way?" She shook her head? "There wasn't much more I could do there?" She was examining the medicine the doctor had prescribed? "Is this all they gave you? There has to be more - much more?" The Professor's friend took his leave? refusing the wife's invitation to stay for breakfast, but saying if there was anything else he could do? he would be happy to come back? The wife brought the Professor a large glass of orange juicer? then she got on the telephone and put in a call for their regular doctor? She had found the slip of paper the Italian doctor had given her? telling the amount of medicine he had administered? but the doctor was not available. He was, his nurse said?" at the hospital? He would be in after noon? |