The others hurried across.
Miss Twining was tearfully excited. "Oh! did you hear? He says my heart is all right, and in the morning I can go down to breakfast! He'll insure my living to be a hundred years old—as if I ever would!" She laughed quiveringly. "Those pink tablets I'm to take after meals, and the brown ones if I should feel bad—I never shall again! I believe it is two hours apart—you see! He says it is just a little nervous breakdown—There isn't any anodyne in them! Oh, I'm so glad you called him!"
CHAPTER XXXV
A NEW WIRE
Early the next morning Juanita Sterling was awakened by a heavy thud. Where was it? It came again. She sprang out of bed, threw a robe around her, and ran over to the window.
Some distance below appeared a grinning face. A man was coming up a ladder.
"Don't be scared, ma'am! I'm only going to put on the loop. Isn't this the room where the 'phone's to be?"
"Why—I don't know," she hesitated.
"It's to go in Miss Sterling's room."
"Who ordered it?"