IN THE SPAN OF A DAY Kenny slept heavily until three that afternoon.

Don wakened him.
"My sister is here," he said.
"Joan!" Don stared a little at his quick, astonished warmth.
"She wired Doctor Cole," he said, "and went to the farm.

He brought her back with him at noon." "The heart of her! I might have known.

And Brian ?" Brian, it seemed, was wakeful and nervous, his pain intense.

The pressure symptoms had not advanced.
"Head's better," Don finished.