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Show -358- ing down the nexrly constructed stretch of freexay through Daly City. Then he turned to her. "You know," he said, quietly and angrilly, "I didn't appreciate your sending those two goons out to my place last week." "Oh, Professor," she said. "I didn't do t h a t . We were just fooling - joking. I didn't think they'd do i t ." "Some joke!" the Professor said. The Professor was delighted, later in the afternoon, when he f i r s t saxr his sister-in-law. She xas out of bed, lying on a couch in the front room, xrith an afghan pulled over her. She looked thinner than he had ever seen her outside of the hospital, but her eyes had regained their sparkle just as her skin had taken on color. It seemed impossible to think that just a few short weeks ago they had almost given up on her. The Professor xrent over and kissed her on the cheek. "That doctor performed some miracle." he said. His wife and brother-in-laxr came in from the kitchen. He embraced his wife and shook hands xrith her s i s t e r ' s husband. "How was your t r i p ? " his brother-in-laxr asked. "Yes, t e l l us a l l about i t , " his wife's s i s t e r said. "I hope you don't mind," his xrife said. "These txro i n s i s ted that xre have dinner here. They wanted to send out for something, but I said we'd stay if they'd let me cook i t ." "That's fine xrith me," the Professor said. "You look t i r e d , " his xrife told him. "Do you have to go back tomorroxr?" The Professor said he did, but not u n t i l noon. |