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"So," asks Walter, clearing his throat "What do I owe you?"

"Twenty dollars for the surgery"

"Whew! I ain’t got that kind of cash, Dr Hester Things are pretty tight" The farure this tiery for the fun of it What do you say, Blum?"

Daniel’s kindness shames me Why wasn’t I like that when I used to practice hty Dollar; I just didn’t want to be taken advantage ofthat’s hoas raised

Now I see the other side of things Being poor makes you more sympathetic to the poor

Fall from Grace

The weather has cleared and it’s unseasonably warood mood until, on the way into ca out the gate So, I think, but when I recognize Captain Wolfe at the wheel with Boodean at his side, I know there must be trouble

Mrs Ross stands on the porch of headquarters with her hand over her e

Nor, the e, the carpentry shop, the kitchen, the sawe, the stables, or out in the woods Today, clusters of corps toward theup the porch steps

"An accident"

"What sort of accident? I saw Captain Wolfe and Private Boodean speeding out of ca someone to the hospital? What happened?"

"We don’t know yet That fellow over there" She points across the co on the bench with the superintendent came doith the report that someone fell from the tower Someone fell"

Oh shit! I almost say, but I bite off ue "Did they take the stretcher? Should I try to go up there? I could get Private Trustler or someone from the motor pool to drive me"

"No The captain said for you to stay here They did take the stretcher, and he wants you to be ready"

Be ready Be ready, I say to auze and bandages in case there’s a wound I also lay out casting material to prepare for broken bones, and a bottle of laudanuo back out on the porch and pace

Major Milliken colad you’re here"

"Who is it? What happened?"

"Don’t know hie is so upset, all I could get out of hih: Linus Boggs Mean anything to you?"