"
"Let me have him, Alfred," begged Aggie sweetly; "I'll put him in
his crib and keep him warm."
Reluctantly Alfred released the boy. His eyes followed him to
the crib with anxiety. "Where's his nurse?" he asked, as he
glanced first from one to the other.
Zoie and Jimmy stared about the room as though expecting the
desired person to drop from the ceiling. Then Zoie turned upon
her unwary accomplice.
"Jimmy," she called in a threatening tone, "where IS his nurse?"
"Does Jimmy take the nurse out, too?" demanded Alfred, more and
more annoyed by the privileges Jimmy had apparently been usurping
in his absence.
"Never mind about the nurse," interposed Aggie. "Baby likes me
better anyway. I'll tuck him in," and she bent fondly over the
crib, but Alfred was not to be so easily pacified.
"Do you mean to tell me," he exclaimed excitedly, "that my boy
hasn't any nurse?"
"We HAD a nurse," corrected Zoie, "but--but I had to discharge
her."
Alfred glanced from one to the other for an explanation.
"Discharge her?" he repeated, "for what?"
"She was crazy," stammered Zoie.
Alfred's eyes sought Aggie's for confirmation. She nodded. He
directed his steady gaze toward Jimmy. The latter jerked his
head up and down in nervous assent.
"Well," said Alfred, amazed at their apparent lack of resource,
"why didn't you get ANOTHER nurse?"
"Aggie is going to stay and take care of baby to-night," declared
Zoie, and then she beamed upon Aggie as only she knew how.
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