saw his jaw drop.
"Jesus, Jack!" he gasped. "He believes it!"
I forced myself to speak.
"What kind of dolls?"
The guard at the window answered, more confidently.
"One we couldn't see well. The other looked like one of your nurses if she'd shrunk to about two feet!"
One of my nurses…Walters…I felt a wave of weakness and sank down on the edge of Ricori's bed.
Something white on the floor at the head of it caught my eye. I stared at it stupidly, then leaned and
picked it up.
It was a nurse's cap, a little copy of those my nurses wear. It was about large enough to fit the head of a