“Oh, Chief, have a heart!”
Mr. Parker turned a deaf ear upon the appeal.
“For all we know, you may have a fractured skull,” he said, helping to ease the reporter into a chair. “We’ll have you X-rayed.”
“I don’t want to be X-rayed,” Jerry protested. “I’m okay.”
“Besides, with Danny Deevers still at large, a hospital is a nice safe place,” Mr. Parker continued, thinking aloud. “Perhaps we can arrange for you to stay there a week.”
“A week! Chief, I’m not going!”
“No arguments,” said Mr. Parker. “You’re the same as in Riverview Hospital now. Penny, telephone for an ambulance.”
CHAPTER
7
AN EMPTY BED
At Riverview hospital twenty minutes later, Jerry was given a complete physical check-up.
“The X-rays won’t be developed for another half hour,” an interne told him, “but you seem to be all right.”