“Why so much interest in this raw recruit?”
Kitty Caught the Surprise on Her Father’s Face
“Some things have happened recently to stir my curiosity,” she answered evasively. Her father’s attitude repelled her further confidences, nor did she feel this was the place to talk too much. But she was determined to learn the one fact for which she had come.
“I must go now, Dad. But tell me one more thing.”
“Anything you want to know except military secrets,” he replied, becoming playful again, because she was so serious.
“Why do they haul the hospital refuse away on a barge instead of burning it in the incinerator as they do in other hospitals?”
“We had an explosion at the incinerator several weeks ago. For some reason they’ve been slow in getting it fixed.”