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Trixie Rankin stood on the hospital steps looking out The car turned in and swung up the rubber incline, but instead of stopping before the porch it ran on towards the doard slope Charlotte jammed on the brakes with a hard jerk and backed to the level

She couldn't think how she had let the car do that She couldn't think why she was slipping frono her up on one side It didn't last After she had drunk the hot black coffee that Alice Bartruone out of the ht, Trixie, only a bit tired"

"Tired? I should think you were tired That Conwayback hi you out to Zele Zele!"

"McClane doesn't care much where he sends you"

"Oh, Mac--As if he could stop us But he'd draw the line at Zele, with the Ger into it"

"Rot They weren't coht they were"

"He didn't think anything about it I wanted to go and I went He--he couldn't stopto o to Zele hiood mind to report him to Head Quarters"

"No You won't do that You wouldn't be such a putrid beast"

"If I don't, Charlotte, it's because I like you You're the pluckiest little blighter in the world But I'll tell you what I shall do Next tio with him and hold his nose down to it by the scruff of his neck If he was ht of him"

"It doesn't one on him yourself once"

"When? When?"

"When you wanted to turn Mac out and make him commandant"

"Oh, then--I was a jolly fool to be taken in by him So were you"

She stopped on her way to the door "I ad he isn't But that only shohat a beastly huoing out even if he can't stand it when he gets there"