THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ETHEL LINA WHITE. Ethel Lina White
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"Take anything?" asked Dr. Parry casually.
"Yes."
"Good. The new nurse wants Miss Capel to take duty, tonight. I forbid it. Lady Warren's heart is in a bad way, and she is in too critical a condition to be left in the charge of an untrained girl. Will you see that this order stands?"
As he listened, the Professor kept his fingers pressed over his eyeballs.
"Certainly," he agreed.
When they were outside, Helen turned to the doctor, her eyes limpid with gratitude.
"You don't know what this means to me," she said.
"You—"
She broke off at the shrilling of the telephone-bell. As the instrument was in the hall, she rushed to answer it.
"Hold on, please," she said, beckoning to Dr. Parry. "The call's for you. Someone's ringing up from the Bull. He asked if you were here."
With her evergreen interest in the affairs of others, she tried to reconstruct the inaudible part of the conversation from listening to Dr. Parry's end of the line.
"That you, Williams?" he asked. "What's the trouble?"
His casual tone dulled to incredulity, as he heard, and then sharpened to a note of horror.
"What?...Impossible...What a horrible thing. I'll come at once."
When he hung up, his expression testified to the fact that the telephone-message had proved a shock. While Helen waited for him to speak, Miss Warren came into the hall.
"Was that the telephone-bell?" she asked vaguely.
"Yes," replied Dr. Parry. "Do you remember a girl Ceridwen Owen—who used to work here? Well, she's dead. Her body has just been discovered inside a garden."
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