"She's not my mother," Elsie said, sharply, "and she is not kind to Duncan. We can't wait; we must go to the hospital directly. Meg 'll show me the way, and then I'll tell the people how bad he is."
"What does Meg know about it?" the man asked, looking into Elsie's face with a searching glance.
Elsie was sharp enough. "He was very bad in the night, thinking there were bad men and beasts in the room after him, and he jumped out of bed and hurt himself. When I banged the wall, Meg came, and picked him up and put him into bed. She said he'd got the fever like she had when she went to the hospital."
The man called out, "Meg, come you here!"
"'what did she say?' the man asked sharply."
CHAPTER XIV.—A FAIRY TRICK.
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he girl came shuffling along with a look of mingled stupidity and terror on her face. It was scarcely the same one that had bent over the fevered child.
"This girl called you in the night. What did she want you for? Now tell me at once," he said, in a stern voice.
Meg looked all round her in a blank, stupid sort of way, letting her eyes travel over Elsie's face in their wandering.