Chapter 79 ATTACK ON DR. AGABA

Talatu's call work me up by two thirty-three in the morning. I ignored the phone at the first call but had to pick it on the second call.

"Tala, what's going on?" I asked, my voice thick with sleep.

"Something horrible has happened," she said in the midst of a cry. "Armed robbers attacked Agaba and he is badly wounded. He is in the hospital."

"Where was he attacked?" I asked, thinking he must have been on his way back from a beer parlor.

"In the house," she said. "He came into the gate without knowing they were already there. They took him inside and beat him up."

"Where was the security man?" I asked.

"I don't know. But he was the one who saw the door to Agaba house opened and alerted the neighbors. Then they rushed him to the hospital. His arm is broken."

I was delighted to hear this news. He killed my wife-to-be; let him also feels how it is to be wounded, whether in the arm or in the heart.

"Where are you now?" I asked.

"I am in the hospital with him," she said. "I have to stay he