"
The nurse contracted her lips curiously. "Of course I will go," she
said.
"Let me come too," said Miss Landbury, rising with alacrity. "I have a
headache myself."
Huddled together in an anxious group they set forth, and the nurse,
like a good shepherd, led her little flock to shelter. But as she
walked back to her room, her brows were knitted curiously.
"What in the world were the silly things talking about?" she wondered.
"David Duke," Carol was informing her husband, as she stood over him,
in negligee ready to "hop in," "I shall let the light burn all night,
or I shall sleep in the cot with you. I won't run any risk of white
shadows sitting on me in the dark."
"Why, Carol--"
"Take your pick, my boy," she interrupted briskly. "The light burns,
or I sleep with you."
"This cot is hardly big enough for one," he argued. "And neither of us
can sleep with that bright light burning."
"David," she wailed, "I have looked under the bed three times already,
but I know something will get me between the electric switch and the
bed."
David laughed at her, but said obligingly, "Well, jump in and cover up
your head with a pillow, and get yourself settled, and I will turn off
the lights myself.
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