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the door. "Murderer, baby killer, noooooooтАФ"
"My wife," the father finally said. "She doesn't...doesn't understand."
Probably doctors were devils to her, Jesse thought. Gods who denied people
the healing they could have offered. Poor bastards. He felt a surge of quiet pride
that he could teach them different.
The father went on looking at Rosamund, now sleeping peacefully. Jesse
couldn't see the other man's eyes.
Back home at the apartment, he popped open a beer. He felt fine. Was it too
late to call Anne? It wasтАФthe computer clock said 2:00 a.m. She'd already be
sacked out. In seven more hours his own 36-hour rotation started, but he couldn't
sleep.
He sat down at the computer. The machine hadn't moved to surround his empty
square after all. It must have something else in mind. Smiling, sipping at his beer,
Jesse sat down to match wits with the Korean computer in the ancient Japanese
game in the waning Boston night.


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Two days later, he went back to check on Rosamund. The rowhouse was
deserted, boards nailed diagonally across the window. Jesse's heart began to
pound. He was afraid to ask information of the neighbors; men in dark clothes kept
going in and out of the house next door, their eyes cold. Jesse went back to the
hospital and waited. He couldn't think what else to do.
Four rotations later the deputy sheriff waited for him outside the building, unable
to pass the security monitors until Jesse came home.




COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS


SUFFOLK COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT


To Jesse Robert Randall of Morningside Security
Enclave, Building 16, Apartment 3C, Boston , within our
county of Suffolk. Whereas Steven & Rose Gocek of
Boston within our County of Suffolk has begun an action
of Tort against you returnable in the Superior Court
 holden at Boston within our County of Suffolk on October
18, 2004 , in which action damages are claimed in the
sum of $2,000,000тАФ as follows:


TORT AND/OR CONTRACT FOR MALPRACTICE