You can go in one at a time, quietly. Then a couple
of you may remain and help nurse her. I really need help, for I am all
alone, and sat up all night with her, and have been close to her most
of the day. Perhaps it would be well for you girls to make
arrangements for relief nursing watches. You are perfectly welcome to
keep her at my home until she is well, if you will relieve me of the
necessity of nursing her."
"Come on, girls; get your wraps; we will all go over. It's only a
couple of blocks. Hurry, everybody!"
"Wait, and I'll tell Kitty we're going out," Marion said.
She ran through several rooms, calling "Kittie! Kittie!" but received
no response.
"I wonder where she is," the hostess said, in a puzzled manner. "Well,
we haven't time to find her. Come on."
"I think I saw her go out more than half an hour ago," Harriet
Newcomb said. "She called someone up on the telephone, and then put
her hat and coat on and went out the side way, and I haven't seen her
since."
"That's strange," Marion commented. Then the subject was forgotten.
The twelve girls and their leader were walking rapidly toward the
place where Mrs. Eddy, the good Samaritan, had taken in and cared for
the girl whom every one of them loved as they would have loved a
sister.
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