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Show -140- Chanter Ten When the Professor l e f t for the campus the next morning? his wife asked him if he could drop by t h e i r daughter's house on Twin Peaks on his way home to deliver a birthday present she had bought for t h e i r youngest granddaughter, x-rtio would be eight years old in a few days? He said he would. If he got away from the University early, as he expected he would, he would drop i t off and come right home, so as to beat the rush across the Golden Gate Bridge? If he was detained, he would stay a t his daughter's house u n t i l the rush was over. His wife had talked with her brother-in-law earlier on the telephone. There was nothing to be done a t her s i s t e r 's place today? They were to continue in the attempt to build her strength up? hoping to operate tomorrow or the next day. His wife had decided to stay home and do the jobs she had neglected about the house. There was no ftord about the Chancellor's ultimatum on the radio news as the Professor drove over the Marin h i l ls to the bridge? Crossing the bridge, he switched the radio off? His mornimg newspaper had added l i t t l e to what he had heard the night before. The t r a f f i c was light traveling up Park Presidio? grew heavier as he crossed the narrow neck of Golden Gate Park and proceeded up Nineteenth Avenue? As he passed by the front of the campus? he became aware of a gathering on the Quadrangle, but such meetings had become |
