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Updated: May 4, 2025
Billie wondered if she could be happy if she were poor, really quite poor. It was rather fun cooking, with Alberdina to clean up after them. It was only for a little while and it was just a sort of game. "It would be a dog's life to keep up forever," thought Billie, "but Richard and Maggie Hook would never admit it.
"Don't you worry, Miss Billie. It's just a coat sleeve wound. The bullet cut through the cloth and scratched my arm. It's lodged there in the wall now, I suppose, as a memento of your nerve." "Why, boy, your sleeve is soaked in blood," exclaimed Miss Campbell. "And you're as white as a ghost. Sit down here quick. Alberdina, a basin of water. Billie, some bandages. Hurry, all of you.
Alberdina broke into German. "No, no. In English." "He very sig yet ees " The doctor gave poor Alberdina a withering glance. "I think I can tell you most of the conversation, Doctor," put in Mr. Campbell. "The patient asked Alberdina if she were one of the maids at the palace. She answered at great length that she was laundress at Sunrise Camp. 'This was not a palace, she explained, 'but a hut.
An impudent woodpecker seated on a limb above her commenced an insistent, aggravating tapping. Alberdina made another struggle to loose her bonds and then settled back weeping. At last merciful sleep brought her oblivion. The mountains shimmered in the heat waves. The sunlight slanting through the trees cast flickering golden shadows on the carpet of pine needles.
Again the axe crashed through the door and without a word they followed her into the gallery, Billie carrying the rifle and Elinor the breakfast horn. Alberdina hurried into the locker room and presently returned with a trunk hoisted on her shoulders. This she placed at the top of the stairs. "Good," exclaimed Billie. "Why didn't we think of that before?
Campbell had joined the doctor and Alberdina at the other end of the house where their voices could not be heard in the sick room. The young surgeons were also in the group. When Billie and Richard came up, the German girl was saying: "I cannot from the German English mag. He is a German already yet?" "Of course," answered the doctor impatiently, "but what did he ask you?"
Campbell was at the wheel and beside him sat Billie, glancing up at him from time to time with eyes full of loving devotion. On the back seat was Phoebe, silently contented beside Richard Hook, and the other occupant was Alberdina Schoenbachler, that absurd little hat perched atop her big smiling face. There had been many days of anxiety and suspense for the people at Sunrise Camp.
"And we'll show you what a bed really is," Ben went on eagerly. "Not a motor car cushion affair either." To their surprise, Miss Campbell was agreeable to the plan. "There's nobody at home to worry but Alberdina," she said, "and it won't hurt her to lose a little flesh, anyhow." The boys worked hard over the beds.
"Nonsense," exclaimed the exasperated Billie, as the "Comet" dashed away with a contemptuous honk-honk, leaving the defeated mountaineer standing in the middle of the road. Only one person was awake in all the camp when the doctor and Billie returned: Alberdina, busy ironing pink-tinted clothes in the lean-to.
So restless did they grow under these speculations, that they did not pause for lunch and, urging the "Comet" to the limit of his speed, they reached home a little before noon. Alberdina was there. Thank heavens for that. They could see her plainly as they turned the curve in the road. But her appearance was not promising. Perched on her head was that absurd comedy hat.
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