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Elsie was to leave to-day to to-morrow; but she needs a little more treatment, Dr. Dudley says. So I don't know when David can come." "I know!" responded Mrs. Jocelyn confidently. "He is coming down to the convalescent ward let me see, I think it may be this afternoon, but to-morrow morning sure!" "Wh-y! how can he?" gasped Polly. "There are three ahead of him, and there are n't any more beds!"
"Wh-y!" breathed Polly, "How funny for her to want me!" "She is nursing Burton Leonard," the physician explained, "a little six-year-old boy who was operated upon yesterday for appendicitis. His life depends on his being quiet, but he will not keep still. Miss Price thinks you can help out by telling him a story or two, something that will make him forget, if possible, how terribly thirsty he is."
Polly was so astonished that she pulled in the horses and suddenly halted them without being aware of it. Eleanor and she turned square about and gazed at Anne questioningly. Barbara couldn't say anything as she was at sea for words. "For goodness' sake!" exclaimed Eleanor, at last. "Wh-y I wanted to live with you in Denver this winter!" complained Polly.
Barbara felt an especial interest in him, as he was "one of her set" in society, and he had been invited to her home when her brother entertained a few of his college friends. Polly now brought her brother up and introduced him to Eleanor and Barbara, but Anne was not there. "Wh-y where did Anne go? She was here this minute?" cried Polly, looking around in amazement. Mrs.
"Wh-y," hesitated the surprised little girl, "if I should say right out, I'm afraid it would n't sound very polite or " "Don't think anything about politeness just now, please. Open your heart frankly, and let me see what is there in regard to her. Don't be afraid to say exactly what you think. It may help me very much. I want to be able to look at her through your clear eyes."
You are so blind over Anne Stewart, that you fail to see how your own little sister is growing up to be a stunning miss. Why, she will be a beauty at twenty, for she is on the high-way there already." "Tom!" gasped John. "Wh-y Polly is only a child!" "That's what all brothers think of their pretty sisters. Some day, a fine young fellow will think differently, and you'll want to club him.
So now I want to ask you if there ever was any one in your family who went to the Klondike and was reported lost there?" "Wh-y, ye-es, there is some such story in our family, but I do not know the exact truth about it. And we seldom discussed it as mother always felt badly afterwards.
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