Part 24 (2/2)
”It is your hoht it withweak, she took a er Everyher interest more fully
”What time is it?” she asked wearily
”Have you no idea?”
”Is it ?”
”Almost”
”And you are not in bed?”
”Oh, I sleep when I feel like it You see, I have nothing else to do”
Cora wondered Nothing to do?
”Besides, aiting up for you, and I could not go to sleep until you came”
”You expected me?”
”For days We knew you were in the mountains”
”How?” asked Cora
”Because one of our ht hiuely remembered the man under the auto when they had been stalled in the hills That must have been the fellow
”My friends,” staht, and my mother----”
”Now, my dear,” said the queen, ”if you will only trust et word to your brother I love brothers Once I had one”
”Is he dead?” asked Cora kindly
”I do not know You see, I was once a very silly girl Would you believe it? I a, but that is not old”
”Ages But so this remark she mumbled and hissed so that no one, whose eyes were not upon her at the moment she spoke, could have understood her
Cora took courage Perhaps she could help this strange creature