“Y oung lady” Officer Maxwell said to Idy. “The child seems to like you. Please come with us.” Moe lay beneath the starched hospital sheets his head swathed in thick white gauze.
The nurses rushed to and fro between the partitions. The usually quiet hospital hadn’t had its beds filled since three years before when there had been an outbreak of influenza in the city. A tall man walked into the large room and approached the nurse in her stiff uniform and starched white cap perched on her head.
“Excuse me” he said “I was told that Moe Miller was brought here recently.”
The nurse studied the man over her spectacles. “Yes he was. And you are?”
