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nurses arrived from Matsue—yet there were still
only eight doctors for ten thousand patients. In the
afternoon of the third day, exhausted from his foul
tailoring, Dr. Sasaki became obsessed with the idea
that his mother thought he was dead. He got per-
mission to go to Mukaihara. He walked out to the
first suburbs, beyond which the electric train service
was still functioning., and reached home late in the
evening. His mother said she had known he was all
right all along; a wounded nurse had stopped by to
tell her. He went to bed and slept for seventeen
hours.
Before dawn on August 8th? someone entered the
room at the Novitiate where Father Kleinsorge was
in bed, reached up to the hanging light bulb, and
switched it on. The sudden flood of light, pouring in
on Father Kleinsorge's half sleep, brought him leaping
out of bed, braced for a new concussion. When he
realised what had happened, he laughed confusedly
and went back to bed. He stayed there all day.
On August 9th, Father Kleinsorge was still tired.
The rector looked at his cuts and said they were not
even worth dressing, and if Father Kleinsorge kept
them clean, they would" heal in three or four days.
Father Kleinsorge felt uneasy; he could not yet
comprehend what he had been through; as if he were
guilty of something awful, he felt he had to go back
to the scene of the violence he thad experienced. He
got up out of bed and walked into the city. He
scratched for a while in the ruins of the mission house,
but he found nothing. He went to the sites of a couple
of schools and asked after people he knew. He