I don't understand that yet, but you can read it. There are no weapons inside, and even if there were and I tried to open it, I have an idea I'd be on the floor before the lid was up. 'What are you waiting for, Sister? Courage?' 'I'm not going to tell you again, my pet. If you don't, I will make you regret disobeying me more than anything you have ever regretted in your life. If you love me, you will accept the offer and put on the collar. 'I'm not going to tell you again, Richard. Kahlan swallowed back the wail that tried to escape her throat and made herself speak. Rondheim turned to Tidi.īud Schwartz waited until he heard the door slam. Why don't you explain what really happened? I want you to trust me.' He paused to select a bullet from the pouch. Religious strongmen, sir, but they must have been praying to the wrong God, for I cut one's throat and left the other bugger blinded. What stunned me and fascinated me was the great jumble of human beings and dwellings which I saw crowding the courtyard before me. Disgusted, he never wanted to see Burlington or Three Counties Hospital again. O'Donnell had agreed to remain for dinner but afterward planned to catch a night flight back to New York. Then they had gone together to the chairman's home. Orden Brown had shown him everything, concealed nothing. Conditions under which nurses lived and worked were almost medieval. The hospital's intern and resident training program had fallen into disrepute. The administrator-key man in the relationship between the hospital's lay board of directors and its medical staff-was a doddering incompetent. The chiefs of surgery and medicine had held their posts for years O'Donnell had sensed that their objective in life was to preserve an amiable status quo. The hospital was run down physically, its organization slack, its medical standards-with a few exceptions-low.
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