She opened her trembling lips to call: “Alfy! Alfy dear, please wake up!”
But the words were never uttered. Something had come into view at her open window which froze them on her lips.
CHAPTER XIV
THE GRIZZLY AND THE INDIANS
For a moment Dorothy sat still in bed, afraid to move or cry out while the great animal at the window remained equally motionless. Then she was able to shriek:
“Alf! Helena! Somebody—help—help! HELP!”
Alfy leapt from her little bed with an answering cry, frightened by Dorothy’s screech, and hurriedly demanding: “Why—why—what?” then rubbed her eyes and stood transfixed with horror.
A moment later the whole house was in an uproar. The lads came running from their rooms, yelling in sympathy with the cries of the girls, the doctor rushed from his office-bedroom clad only in pajamas; the nurse forsook her sick bed—which she had not left before since first stricken with a chest attack; Anita—Wun Sing—kitchen boy—all the household gathered in the great corridor upon which the girls’ rooms opened.