The Delicate Operation
March, 1964
The Delicate OperationDoctor Clifton Wefel, pillar of his community, bedrock of his church, generous giver to charity, physician and wife hater, jimmied the bedroom window of another pillar of the community, a richer one, Judge Snide, and climbed through.He closed the window, drew the curtains and, dropping the jimmy into his bag, tiptoed to Snide's night table."Soon," Clifton thought, taking his own pulse, "will come the dubious reward of my crime, the throb of my adrenal glands...