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A small steamer, the "Pleiad," was fitted out with a black crew and a few white officers, and in consequence of the death of Mr Beecroft, who had been appointed to lead the expedition, it was placed under the command of Dr Baikie, R.N. He proceeded up the Quorra, the proper name of the Niger, and entering the mouth of the Binue, known as the Tsadda, discovered by Dr Barth, steamed up that magnificent stream till the falling waters compelled him to return.
Not so much of any one thing as of some big, intangible thing that hasn't happened. I can't shake off the feeling. It's horrible. My mind won't stop thinkin' of things I don't want to think of. My nerves are a wreck, Nell. I've lost my grip, my judgment. I'm not myself." Nell Beecroft listened in hard curiosity, eyeing her critically.
Better even than Nell Beecroft she knew that what passed with her following for shrewdness and courage in reality was callousness and calculating cynicism. The woman ignored the interruption and went on
I'm drunk jus' plain drunk," she said thickly, and was glad that there would be no one but Nell Beecroft about. Nell was safe. She had long since attended to that. They shared too many secrets in common for Nell to squeal. Nell was not easily shocked. She laughed foolishly at the thought of Nell being shocked and wondered what could do it. Her contract with Symes called for a graduate nurse Dr.
If only she could sleep! Sleep? Was it days or weeks since she had slept? Forebodings, suspicions of those whom she had been forced to trust, Nell Beecroft, Lamb, and others, were spectres that frightened sleep from her strained eyes. A tight band seemed stretched across her forehead. She rubbed it hard, as though to lessen the tension.
She lunged down the corridor once more and Nell Beecroft stood looking after with a curious expression of derision and contempt upon her hard face. Dr. Harpe threw herself upon the bed in one of the private rooms and soon her loud breathing told Nell Beecroft that she was in the heavy sleep of drink.
They sent fifty men to take him out of the hills, and when he was handed his medicine he swallowed the whole dose to save his pardner, and never squeaked." Nell Beecroft walked to the window swallowing hard at the lump which rose in her throat. "If I could sleep get one night's decent sleep " "When you collapse you'll go quick," opined the woman unemotionally.
"Not alone." "Hi, Doc!" Kunkel pointed to a straight, black pillar of smoke rising at the station, and yelled in local parlance: "Look there! Your beau's come! That's the Van Lennop Special!" "She ain't here." Nell Beecroft, with arms akimbo, blocked the hospital door. "Upon your honor, Nell?" She looked the sheriff squarely in the eyes. "Upon my honor, Dan."
"It is not impossible," he continued, "to get the nurse who left you before Nell Beecroft came, saying that she knew enough about you both to 'send you over the road. It is not too difficult to bring to light the examples of your incredible incompetency which prove you unfit to sign a death certificate, nor is your record in Nebraska hard to get."
She pointed to a gesticulating mob which was turning the corner where the road led from the Symes Irrigation Project into town. "The dagos!" Dr. Harpe's voice was a whisper of fear. "They're on the prod," Nell Beecroft said briefly, and strode to the cellar-door. "Cache yourself!" She would have thrust Dr. Harpe down the stairway. "No no not there! I can't! I'd scream!"
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