Monday, August 04, 2008

The End


It was only a few days later that Zachary Baumkletterer collapsed over his desk at work. Tom Houston and Hilary Whitaker carried him down to the first aid room, where the nurse said his pulse was weak but not too bad, but she would like to be on the safe side. So she called an ambulance, and they took him to City Hospital.
Two days later, because Zack didn't have any family, it was Mr. Pencewaite and Pastor Westman who appeared before Judge Larner, along with the Resident from the hospital, and they all agreed that the best thing would be to commit Zack to the Maplewood Neuro-Psychiatric Institute on a temporary basis.
The doctor there says he is making very good progress. Only yesterday he told Mr. Pencewaite that Zack could probably be discharged and go back to work in a couple weeks.
"I can practically guarantee that he'll be as good as new, fully cured," he said. "Some of the treatments we have now are just amazing. And when the hair grows back over his temple you won't even be able to see the scar."

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