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“What did he tell you?”

“Nothing special,” Mike repeated for the fourth time. “He wanted to hear what had happened to his uncle, that’s all.”

“And where does he have a phone from?” Rob looked at the phone in his hand. The last call had ended the minute he’d tried to find out who was on the other end, and all his efforts to call the person back had been futile.

“I don’t know. I guess someone gave it to him.”

“There are only four calls here, and they are all to the same number. Who was he speaking to?”

“I don’t know,” Mike insisted.

“It’s a shame you’re not telling me everything, Mike. Dr. Jerry won’t be very pleased about this.”

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Martin left the emergency room building. He wouldn’t be foolish enough to head for the hospital entrance; it would be too easy for them to locate him, if that was what they would try to do. Instead, he ran on the sidewalk and turned into the next building in the row, a six-story building with a huge sign informing that it was the Pediatric Department. He confidently pushed open the door, colored in varying hues of pink and green, and walked inside.

He had to make contact with Weisskopf, to warn him. There was no way to know what they were doing now with his phone, and if Shimon had figured out what had happened, or if he was pouring too much information into Rob’s ears at this very minute, which could be dangerous.

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“Move to Bnei Brak? It’s actually a nice idea,” Yosef said to his mother and Dov. “We’ll be able to visit each other. Hey, can I offer you a drink?”

“Thank you, I’d appreciate that,” Dov replied as he looked around the room. “You know, the ward here is very nice.”

“It is,” Yosef agreed. “I was thinking that it’s better for you that I’m not around all the time.”

“It’s nice when you’re home.”

“And it’s nice when I’m not,” Yosef said with a chuckle. “I have brains, you know.”

“Your mother never said otherwise.”

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“Mike.” Dr. Skulholt addressed the young man, his tone strident. “Come outside with me now. I want to speak to you.”

Mike dutifully followed him out of the room. The psychiatrist chose one of the red chairs opposite the door and pointed to the seat beside him.

“Pray with your uncle in the meantime,” Rob instructed Martin, who had remained in the room. He glanced nervously toward the corridor. “Wait a minute, you aren’t putting on your boxes? Why did you bring them?”

“To pray together with my uncle, obviously,” Martin said hastily, and opened his tefillin bag. Something in the psychiatrist’s expression was making him nervous. Had Shimon Weisskopf managed to get here already? Had he tried to interfere in the healing center’s affairs in a way that had aroused the man’s suspicions? He hoped not. Shimon had seemed like the cautious and measured type.