The Saga of Salk Atnas
an After-Christmas Chronicle It was mid-afternoon on Christmas Eve in Jericho,Pennsylvania, when the brawny policeman forcibly escorted a sad-looking man in a tattered green coat into the lobby of the Konestoga County Mental Health Agency. The receptionist hardly looked up until the blue-suited lawman sternly and loudly demanded that a psychiatrist conduct an emergency evaluation of the shabby stranger, who was bald, tall and very, very thin. The outburst of the ruddy-faced policeman and the stranger’s odd appearance — there were multiple patches on his coat —...
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