Midnight
`` You can take that manipulator off in an hour or so , '' he told me . `` And in the meantime we 'll get along with our testing . '' I gathered that they could stop this treatment anywhere along the process if I did not measure up . Midnight . The manipulator had been off my hand for several hours , and it was obvious that my Mekstrom 's was past the first joint and creeping up towards the next . I eyed it with some distaste ; as much as I wanted to have a fine hard body , I was not too pleased at having agony for a companion every time the infection crossed a joint . I began to wonder about the wrist ; this is a nice complicated joint and should , if possible , exceed the pain of the first joint in the ring finger .