Miss Landbury sat up abruptly.
"We won't stay here without you, David," said Carol.
"I tell you what," said Gooding brightly, "we'll get my mattress and
put it in the room for me, and we'll move David's mattress on Carol's
bed for David, and then we'll move the girls' mattress in on the floor
for them."
No one offered objections to this arrangement. "Hurry up, then, and
get your mattress," begged Carol. "I am so sleepy."
"I can't carry them alone through those long dark halls," Gooding
insisted. Miss Landbury would not accompany him without a third party,
Carol flatly refused to leave dear sick David alone in that porch, and
at last in despair David donned his bath robe and the four of them
crossed the wide parlor, traversed the dark hall to Gooding's room and
returned with mattress, pillows and blankets. After a great deal of
panting and pulling, the little party was settled for sleep.
It must have been an hour later when they were startled into sitting
posture, their hearts in their throats, by piercing screams which rang
out over the mesa, one after another in quick succession.
"David, David, David," gasped Carol.
"I'm right here, Carol; we're all right," he assured her quickly.
Miss Landbury swayed dizzily and fell back, half-conscious, upon the
pillows.
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