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hood and of Azen Mabo and the Franciscan Fathers. At other moments, he stood listening to the steps in the hallway which might be some one from his mother's room.
At last a surgeon came and told him that "the patient" had gained a little; her pulse and respiration were more favorable. There would probably be "no further change" within twenty-four hours. Nevertheless Barney waited, until late in the evening; there was no further change except that his mother was sleeping more normally; then he went out.
