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Updated: June 20, 2025
Neither Faith nor Una had any idea how sick the boy really was; a watchful mother would have had a doctor without delay; but there was no mother, and poor little Carl, with his sore throat and aching head and crimson cheeks, rolled himself up in his twisted bedclothes and suffered alone, somewhat comforted by the companionship of a small green lizard in the pocket of his ragged nighty.
In vain he tried to explain, the child only grew more wildly excited; and finally the doctor promised, if the child would come home at once, only two blocks away, he would return and look for the lady in the nighty.
And he had taken the little fellow home and had seen him fling himself into his mother's arms, and with tears and sobs tell her of the "poor lady whose husband had driven her right out into the blizzard, don't you think, mamma, and only her nighty on; and, mamma, she hadn't done one single bad thing not one!"
"Oh, you can buy photographs and souvenirs, and candy and drugs, I expect." Angela shook her head. "I don't want to buy them. Do you think I could find a a nighty?" "A 'nighty'?" "A nightgown. You see, I've just remembered the cascades and mountains made me forget my dressing-bag was left behind with Kate.
An old woman advanced from the head of the couch and motioned Truxton to approach. "I am deeply honoured, your Highness," said the visitor, bowing very low. Through the windows he could see motionless soldiers standing guard in the balcony. "Come over here, Mr. King. Nurse won't let me get up. Excuse my nighty, will you, please? I'm to have pajamas next winter."
As he talked, the "nighty" that was not, and must be, weighed upon his mind as heavily as though it were a coat of mail instead of the gossamer creation he imagined. "Now I've got to concentrate and figure out what's trumps," he said to himself, when Angela had gone to rest before dinner. "I've dealt myself a mighty queer card, but there's no good bluffing in this game."
No sooner had they reached the door, however, than he pulled his hand away, crying: "Quick, papa! quick! you go round the block that way, and I'll run round this way, and we'll be sure to find that poor lady that's out in the cold just in her nighty!"
But pinned on to a sleeve-knot of pale pink ribbon was a slip of paper; and on the slip of paper were a few words in a woman's handwriting: "Compliments of California to Mrs. May." A faint fragrance of roses haunted the mysterious "nighty," filled the room, and mingled with Angela's dreams.
How he come to drift out into our country was a story all by itself. He was disappointed in love he had to be. One look at him and you'd know why. So he sailed out to the wild West, where he was about as useful as a trimmed nighty. We always stood between Aleck and the old man, until the boy got so he'd make straight once out of a possible five.
Not in the attic, but when I was dancing for the big girls in their dormitory, at night they'd wake me up to get me to dance. But she wasn't much older than the biggest of the big girls, so she laughed I suppose I must have looked quaint dancing in my nighty, with my long red hair.
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