He's lost a lot of blood." JAKE? It must be bad if he sent for me." It is! Pretty near his whole left calf got shot off."The Doctor stopped halfway in...o his buggy and asked, "Shot? Who did it?" I really don't know," said Frank, which was true, to a point.The Doctor stared at Frank for a beat, then finished getting into the buggy.The two men headed for the Crown Bar ranch at a fast pace.It was now late afternoon as the two women drove their wagons west. Maeve noticed that Shaylee's wagon was. Those bastards are going to pay for what they did to me!"Jane left her room, intent on reporting the events of the night before to the dean. She walked across campus and stormed into the dean's office."Can I help you young lady?," said the middle-aged secretary."Where is the dean?," said Jane, "I was drugged and attacked by the library staff last night." Oh dear," said the secretary," That's terrible, I can't imagine any of the library employees doing anything like that. I'll see if the dean. Sending his point of view deep, he coursed back and forth, testing every crevice and fault of the mass of rock that upheld the building."Wells," he muttered. "Six of them, all tapping a deep gravel layer. They won't do us a bit of good. Hey, here's something that might get us in. Looks like a... Uhoh! Well, that's the way it goes. It'll get us there, all right, but it's gonna be smelly as all Hell." He opened his eyes, smiling grimly at his companions. "It's a natural string of caves that they. Meanwhile, the nurse kept on talking. "You were in a pretty bad accident and you've got twenty-two stitches in your forehead, and your left tibia is severely fractured and you pretty well snapped your right humerus, but the doctor is expecting you to make a full recovery. I'm Ariel, by the way. I'll be around, so if you need anything, the other nurses and I are here for you." Finally able to speak normally again, I took a breath. "Thank you. I needed that." Smiling, I attempted to sit up. Bad.