Eight doctors struggle to save a dying baby—until a ragged boy points to the child’s neck and says something no one dares believe

it could not be given as a fact but only developed as a truth.

He thought: I can learn that. That is something that can be learned.

He looked at Richard.

“My grandfather comes too,” he said. “Or I come on Sundays and Thursdays. One or the other.”

“Sundays and Thursdays,” Richard said. “And any other day you need.”

“And I go to school by myself. I don’t continue reading …