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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nurse Barker laughed as she lit a fresh cigarette.
Nurse Barker grunted, for she recognized the type. Helen obeyed, although her eyes
wandered to the objects on thebed-table.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Unfortunately, Lady Warren resented her words as im
pertinence.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nurse Barker swallowed a mouthful of smoke, in
professional style.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nurse Barker saw her chance of redeeming her
unpopularity. Stephen ceased to protest, for the reason that he heard footsteps
behindhim.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Her back view, however, was impressive, forshe was
unusually tall. Talks with plums inher mouth, and kept me in my place. But your way
happens to be my way, my dear, Newton told her.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Because it had been assigned to Helen, she clung to
it with jealoustenacity.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Directly her eyes were open, she glared at Helen.
Well, anyone what wants to get our little Miss Capel, will have to getpast Oates and
me first. Nurse Barker swallowed a mouthful of smoke, in professional
style.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Helen obeyed, although her eyes wandered to the
objects on thebed-table.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope my wife will continue to use youas her
model, so long as she spares me that.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>She alone, knewwhere she had hid her
revolver.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Had she known it, she would have been indifferent
to anydevelopment of marital friction. Thank you for laying my table, miss, he
said.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Her hints were so vague and mysterious that they
got under Helens skin. Suddenly she wondered what would be the outcome, if the nurse
insistedon her night in bed. You are not to talk to him about thepatient. Havent you
no ticed that themurderer always chooses girls who earn their own living? Unlike the
other houses in which she hadworked, the Summit provided a background.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I In her turn, Nurse Barker put a
question.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Its in thecupboard at the top of the wardrobe. Yet
the drawing room and kitchen seemed a world apart.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nurse Barkers accent grew more, refined as she
asked aquestion.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>She alone, knewwhere she had hid her
revolver.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It wasobviously absurd to be afraid of a bedridden
old woman.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Luckily, in spite of her discouragement, her sense
of duty remainedunimpaired.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Youre the only man Ive ever had to
askbefore.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Its because hes a slacker, snarled Lady
Warren.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>She reminded herself that no one could get in
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