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return to work if the doctor would let him, but the nurse shook her head. "You
ought to stay here for another week or ten days," she admonished him.
"Nothing doing,"' cried Jimmy. "I'll be out of here Monday at the latest." But
when Edith told him that the C.P.A.'s had finished, and that their report would be
handed in Saturday, Jimmy announced that he would leave the hospital the
following day.
"
"
"
But you can't do it," said the nurse.
Why not?" asked Jimmy.
The doctor won't permit it."
Edith tried to dissuade him, but he insisted that it was absolutely necessary for
him to be at the office when the C.P.A.'s report was made.
"
I'll be over there Friday evening or Saturday morning at the latest," he said as
she bid him good-bye.
And so it was that, despite the pleas of his nurse and the orders of his physician,
Jimmy appeared at the plant Friday afternoon. Bince greeted him almost
effusively, and Mr. Compton seemed glad to see him out again.
That evening Harold Bince met Murray at Feinheimer's, and still later the Lizard
received word that Murray wanted to see him.
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