She retired from view and sent out her cousin, and until the sun set the two boys and Dorothy and Ethel measured and sawed and nailed, with results that satisfied them so well that they did not mind being tired.
CHAPTER VII
TROUBLE AT ROSE HOUSE
"If it weren't that I could come out here and see you every day or so I should be wild to get back to work in Oklahoma."
Edward Watkins was the speaker. He and Miss Merriam were walking through a wooded path that ran from Rosemont to Rose House. The day was warm and the shade of the trees was grateful.
"How is your patient?" asked Gertrude.
"Getting on very well, but the doctors won't let him travel yet."
"Have you heard lately from your doctor in Oklahoma?"
"I hear about every day! I was with him just long enough for him to find that I was useful and he's wild to have me there again. I wired him that I'm ready to go, but that the sick man is nervous about making the return trip alone. Of course he wants to keep on the good side of a good patient, so he answered, 'Stay on'."