city of endless night

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III IN A BLACK UTOPIA THE BLOND BROOD BREEDS AND SWARMS IT was with a strange mixture of eagerness and fear that I received the head physician's decision that I would henceforth recover my faculties more rapidly in the familiar environment of my own home. A wooden-faced male nurse accompanied me in a dosed vehicle that ran noiselessly through the vaulted interior streets of the completely roofed-in city. Once our vehicle entered an elevator and was let down a brief distance. We finally alighted in a street very like the one on which the hospital was located, and filed down a narrow passage-way. My companion asked for my keys, which I found in my clothing. I stood by with a palpitating heart as he turned the lock and opened the door. The place we entered was a comfortably furnished bachelor's apartment. Books and papers were littered about giving evidence of no disturbance since the sudden leaving of the occupant. Immensely relieved I sat down in an upholstered chair while the nurse scurried about and put the place in order. "You feel quite at home?" he asked as he finished his task. " Quite," I replied, " things are coming back to me now." " You should have been sent home sooner," he said. " I wished to tell the chief as much, but I am only a second year interne and it is forbidden me to express an original opinion to him." " I am sure I will be all right now," I replied. He turned to go and then paused. " I think," he said, " that you should have some notice on you that when you do go out, if you become confused and make mistakes, the guards will understand. I will speak to Liejt. Forrester, the Third Assistant, and ask that such a card be sent you." With that he took his departure. When he had gone I breathed joyfully and freely. The rigi...
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