"A telegram, dear?"
"Yes, Auntie, and put in, 'Please help Carol'."
"I will ask Uncle to send the message at once, dear."
When she opened the bedroom door, she found Colonel Mandeville pacing the corridor without. As a sentinel he had kept watch there throughout the night and a great part of the morning. He came into the room, and stood with one arm around his wife, looking down at Carol.
"Well, little man, so we are going to cheat the doctors?"
Carol didn't at all know what 'cheat' meant.
"Carol wishes you to let Miss Desmond know, dear. Will you wire at once? And say in the message, 'Please help Carol.' She will know what he means."
"I will gladly do so. Dr. Burton is downstairs, Emmeline. He had better come up now."
An expression of distress came over Carol's face.
"Auntie," he said, "don't let the doctor do anything to me, please."