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Show -5«- "Yes?" she said? "but you'd better tell me exactly where to turn?" She was a good driver?1 but she had a poor sense of direction? Since coming to California? she had driven only to the stores in town to do their shopping, even though once a few years earlier she had drivensalfne from the Midwest to Utah? The Professor gave her directions, and she left; saying she would be back in the morning? The Professor was growing drowsy? but he did not feel as ill as he had the night before. He told her to take her time? to get a good night's rest? and to bring his shaving equipment when she returned? He fell asleep almost at once? He did not cough, and he did not feel the pain in his chest that he had the night before. He was awakened twice by a nurse, who asked him to turn over, so she could adminisfieijhis shots He did so? scarcely knowing what was happening*? not even seeing the nurse, feeling only her fingers on his buttocks? bunching the flesh? then the swift K skillful jab of the needle? When the time came for the next shot? it was daylight? and all was awake? It must have been a different nurse? because when she entered? she was dressed in a freshly starched uniform? and she herself looked bright and newly made up?1 She was a very young? very slender girl with b'lack hair done up in ringlets? When she asked him to turn over? he felt practiced? turned on his side and thrust his buttocks at her? His movement startled her? and she giggled? |