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Show -356- students appeared needing rides, the txro student cars could bring everyone back. The Professor glanced a t his xatch. He guessed i t xrould take about ten minutes to get to the house in Pacifica. It xas s t i l l txrenty-minutes to class time. He told the driver of one of the cars that he could f i l l his car and leave now if he want- K ed to. He drove a Voisxagen, and it took the four people /\ standing outside the diner. Seeing i t drive axay, a short, dark g i r l , who had been eating inside, rushed out to say she had a friend xrho had not yet arrived. "She has a class this period in the Humanities Building," she told the Professor. '.'She asked me to t e l l you - to be sure she d i d n ' t get l e f t ." The Professor xas surprised to hear that there were s t i ll classes being conducted on the campus. In his oxm mind, the classrooms stood empty. "All r i g h t , " he told the small Italian-looking g i r l . "We'll see she doesn't get left behind." Two more students arrived, xalking up Junipero Serra, and the Professor told them to go xrith the driver of the second car, who was just noxr coming out of the diner. He looked again at his xatch. It was noxr ten minutes to the hour, time for the missing student to be getting out of her class. "You go on," he told the driver of the second car. " I ' ll wait a few minutes longer for anyone xrho might be coming from a one o'clock c l a s s ." |
