CHAPTER THREE JOEL HANKINS LOOKED llP AT THE CLOCK on the library wall and sighed. Almost four. He'd have to be getting back to his room before long if he was going to keep that date with Kaye. He turned his eyes back to the huge tome that lay before him, his gaze racing across the pages, trying to take it all in before leaving, but he knew even as he started that it wouldn't work. He wasn't like Travis or some of the others who could get top grades without even seeming to work at it. Things came hard for Joel. Therefore, he reflected grimly, I should appreciate them more, but somehow it all seemed just that much crap. Travis would appreciate his law degree every bit as much, and God knows he spent one hell of a lot of time appreciating everything in skirts while Joel was boning up on t

