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Show -331- Chapter Twenty-Three When the Professor arrived back a t O'Hare Field the next day, i t was Sunday, and his daughter, her husband, and their younger daughter stood a t the exit gate, waiting to greet him. His granddaughter, a l i t t l e over a year older than the elder of his two San Francisco grandchildren, appeared shy. She had not seen her grandfather since the summer before her grandparents had sailed on t h e i r t r i p around the world, when the family had spent a month in San Francisco, and she had s±ix± been a l i t t l e g i r l . She was s t i l l a child, but her body had firmed and begxan to develop, and she wore braces on her teeth. When she smiled, as she did when the Professor put his arms about her and kissed her on the cheek, she was very pretty, despite the braces. Her mother told the Professor that she was to perform this afternoon a t a r e c i t a l in the hall of a music school in the Loop, where she studied piano. She hoped her father wouldn't mind coming along with them. "Of course not," he replied. He had heard through l e t t e r s from his daughter to his wife that their granddaughter xas showing a genuine talent in music and had been granted a scholarship tolhis particular school. As they walked down the long concourse toward the termi- |