And Mom let out a kind of strangled cry and fainted dead away on the bed....
Dan Parker sat on a chair facing the lounge where Biddy sat close beside Jane. Dan leaned forward and said, "Now just once more, baby—tell us what the man did."
Jane said, "Dan! The child's exhausted. She's told us everything she knows."
"She might have missed something. He had some sort of a diathermy machine in this cave?"
"What's diathermy, Pop?"
"Never mind that. He fastened some wires from this machine to your leg and after a while you went to sleep. Can't you remember anything else?"
Biddy yawned. "Nothing except he was very nice and said he came from the sky bloc."
Jane lifted Biddy in her arms. "I'm going to put her to bed. Nothing can be done until morning anyhow. Poor baby!"