Doc Healy

 

 

 

 Dr Healy was absent that night and no one was the wiser.  He went off just to have a smoke and returned just before the smoke cleared. I have a memory of him scanning the scene before his entrance. Most unusual don’t you think? Why the hesitation? One would properly assume he’d burst into the room in shock or action but rather he wandered, as if  strolling through a smoke shop while killing time on his lunch hour. But this was the dark of night to be clear and I fear the good Doc had a hand in it…both hands at that. He grew impatient because he claimed he had patients waiting. Given the hour, I doubted, but so he said, and who was I to question? The authorities wished him well and retreated. But “in his absentia", I was only left to wonder.

 

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