WHEN I woke up I felt fine. I didn’t have any after effects of the kind ether gives you; I had been given ether when my leg had been injured the first time and I have never forgotten how sick I was coming out of it. This time I just opened my eyes and there I was, still on the Big Boat and feeling pretty much the way that I had when I was out to sleep. Then I looked down at my leg. It was in a cast from my hip right down to my toes. I tried to lift it and almost threw myself off the bed. Then I remembered that we were in a no-gravity field.
WHENTwo or three straps, none of them tight, were holding me in the bed. I couldn’t turn over, but the absence of weight kept me from feeling any constant pressure on my back. So I really didn’t mind. At first I thought I was alone, then I discovered t
