But you will be going west?"
"No, south, to-day, and in a few minutes. Here comes the Inspector. May
I present him?"
The little nurse's snapping eyes glowed with pleasure as they ran over
the tall figure of the Inspector and rested upon his fine clean-cut
face. The Inspector had just made his farewell to the Sergeant
preparatory to an immediate departure, but it was a full half hour
before they rose from the dainty tea table where the little nurse had
made them afternoon tea from her own dainty tea set.
"It makes me think of home," said the Inspector with a sigh as he bent
over the little nurse's hand in gratitude. "My first real afternoon tea
in ten years."
"Poor man!" said the nurse. "Come again."
"Ah, if I could!"
"But YOU are coming?" said the little nurse to Cameron as he held her
hand in farewell. "I heard the doctor say you were coming and we are
quite wild with impatience over it."
Cameron looked at the Inspector.
"I had thought of keeping Cameron at Macleod," said the latter. "But now
I can hardly have the heart to do so."
"Oh, you needn't look at me so," said the little nurse with a saucy toss
of her head. "He wouldn't bother himself about me, but--but--there is
another. No, I won't tell him." And she laughed gaily.
Cameron stood mystified.
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