Chapter 99

“Marlene Aberdine,” she replied, tucking a strand of blond hair behind an ear and adjusting her hat. Then her eyes narrowed. “Wait, are you the new doctor at the hospital?”

My father smiled. “That’s me.”

She grinned. “Well, I, for one, am real glad you’re here. You’ll probably experience a lot of anti-city-slicker nonsense for a few weeks. People around here don’t take quickly to change, but I wason the board doing the search for a replacement, and was adamant we find someone competent, no matter where he or she came from. You were by far the best we found. You’ll be a huge improvement over the man we had until he was released from his position. He was an idiot with a scalpel.” The way she wrinkled her nose made us both laugh, and I left my dad to chat her up while I wandered over to Beebub.