Cherry Ames 24 Companion Nurse by Helen Wells

Author:Helen Wells [Wells, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap
Published: 2011-12-31T13:26:31+00:00

“O-o-oh, a nurse! No wonder you have some proper feeling for others,” Auntie Pru said. “Not at all like that other young woman staying here. She’s rather upstage, 106 CHERRY

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that young Mrs. Greene. Barely speaks to me, goes off for walks by herself, though you’d think she’d be glad to have company. Of course she did explain, when she arrived a few days ago, that she’s convalescent and came to take the country air. But do you think,” Auntie Pru asked aggrievedly, “that that is suffi cient reason for not telling me even the simplest, smallest fact about herself? And we the only two guests here!”

“Perhaps she’s just reserved,” Cherry said, secretly admiring such resistance to Auntie Pru’s onslaughts.

Cherry thought how Auntie Pru would enjoy herself when news broke of the robbery at the nearby Carewe Museum.

“Would you turn on the television?” said Auntie Pru.

“Time for the news soon, you know. I never miss it.” Cherry turned on the television set. Before the newscast came on, she went to have a look at her patient.

Martha was asleep, so Cherry softly closed the door again and returned to the sitting room. Auntie Pru welcomed her back like an old friend.

They watched the newscast, which originated in London. After several items of major interest, a picture of the Shah and Lady Liddy fl ashed on the screen, alighting from a commercial airliner with other notables in a glare of fl ashbulbs. Cherry sat up with a start. The airport was Rome, and the broadcaster was saying:

“—Liddy arrived in Rome at midnight last night, after a visit to England. British reporters had not known of his departure from England, because of the suddenness of the Shah’s decision to visit art exhibits in

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