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"Did you expect Jord to keep Aleck, when he's got to have another man besides for the things Aleck can't do now?" Burns nodded. "Expect anything of him." "Put down that murderous-looking thing and come along over. Ellen said you were here, and Win sent word to you not to bother to change your clothes." "Thanks I won't." "Won't bother or won't come?" "Both." Chester sighed.
It was right under the arc light, and Jord recognized Franz 'Little Hungary' you know with his fiddle under his arm, crossing to go in at the stage door of the Victoria Theatre, where he plays. The boy didn't see them at all. "Neither Jord nor Aleck can tell much about it yet, of course, but from the little I got I know as well as if I had been there what happened.
Altogether well the nurses have got a couple of interesting cases on their hands for a while. No doubt Aleck will be well looked after. As for Jord he'll be so much the more helpless of the two for a while, I'm afraid he'll prove a distraction that will demoralize the force." He smiled faintly for the first time, but his face sobered again instantly.
And the case is fine as silk. They've a good local man to look after it till I come again, which will be Thursday. And I'm going to drive there and take you and Jord King and Jord's mother. How's that for a plan?" "It sounds very jolly, Red, but will the Kings go? And why Mrs. King? Will she care to?" "Because I've found some old friends of hers in the place, though I'll not tell her whom.
Besides, I want to keep on her right side, for reasons. And Jord's back has been bothering him lately and I've prescribed a rest. We'll take the Kings' limousine and go in state. It'll be arranged in five minutes, see if it won't. By the way, Jord says Aleck's new arm is really going to do him some service besides improving his looks."
He did not try to tell her more just then, but later, when both were steadied, he added a few more important details to the story: "Franz went to the hospital with them wouldn't leave them ran the risk of losing his position. Do you know, Jord has been teaching that boy English, evenings, and naturally Franz adores him.
The other two looked at each other, smiling joyously. "He's getting well," said Ellen Burns. "No doubt of it in the world," agreed Jordan King. "Sit down here where I can look at you both," commanded the convalescent. "Jord, isn't my wife something to look at in that blue frock she's wearing? I like these things she melts into evenings, like that smoky blue she has on now.
"Two specials now, and half the staff interested. It's up to Anne Linton and nobody else. If she can do the trick she and Nature all right. If not well Thanks for letting go the car, Jord. This happens to be my busy day." Jordan King looked after him, his heart uncomfortably heavy.
Well, he supposed morning would come sometime, though it seemed, at midnight, a long way off. "Want me to call you at five-thirty, Jord?" Burns had inquired of him at parting. "No, thanks," he had replied. "I'll not miss it."
By and by it steadied again; and, his weariness partially lifted by the heartening little breakfast Ellen brought him on a tray, he told her the story of the night: "Jord was coming in from the Coldtown Waterworks, forty miles out, late for dinner and hustling to make up time. Aleck, the Kings' chauffeur, was with him.
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