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Show ^3* PART V 23. I woke up in Billings Hospital. I had pneumonia in both lungs, a broken rib from coughing too hard, and very sore back muscles. They gave me penicillin and put me in an oxygen tent, they gave me dru^gs to supress the cough and drugs to make me sleep and bound up my ribs, so that between the disease and the cure I have only a vague memory of ray first several days there. Then one morning I woke up and there was the world again. Even from flat on my back, me so weak that lifting an arm was an effort, it looked great. My last few days at The Castle were as vague as a mixed-up dream. I remembered trying to telephone, and then there was little I could recall except fira lly a voice like a xxp wisp of fog, and, most definite, a cool hand on my forehead. I thought it was my mother's, I was immensely comforted, and without reservation I gave myself into those hands. Only to feel the most intolerable pain in my side. Betrayed.' Ben visited that afternoon and filled me in. I had not been acting normally for several days and on that last day when I collapsed on my bed and saw the pale horse, I had not closed my door. A girl there had seen me trying to phone, had seen me prostrate through the doo^ had found near the hall phone a scrap of paper with K&fe* name and numbers on it, and called her. That hostile |