Raymond."
"So I see--I mean I'm glad to see it--I mean--oh, I don't know what
I do mean!" he finished desperately. "Did you know she was going to
be here? Was that the reason you asked me to come?" he inquired of
Jack.
"Hadn't the least notion in the world," answered Jack. "I'm as much
surprised as you are."
"Well, we'll take pity on you and tell you all about it," said
Bessie. "Mother, here are the boys," she called; and Mrs. Gleason,
who had suffered so much since having been saved from the Lusitania
and afterward rescued by air craft from the lonely castle, came out
of her room to greet the boys.
They were as glad to see her as she was to meet them again, and for
a time there was an interchange of talk. Then Mrs. Gleason withdrew
to leave the young people to themselves.
"Well, go on, tell us all about it!" begged Tom, who could not take
his eyes off Nellie Leroy. "How did she get here?" and he indicated
Harry's sister.
"He talks of me as though I were some specimen!" laughed the girl.
"But go on--tell him, Bessie."
"Well, it isn't much of a story," said Bessie Gleason. "Nellie
started to do Red Cross work, as mother and I are doing, and she was
assigned to the hospital where we were."
"This was after I heard the terrible news about poor Harry at your
escadrille," Nellie broke in, to say to Tom and Jack. "I--I suppose
you haven't had any--word?" she faltered.
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