[Carette of Sark by John Oxenham]@TWC D-Link bookCarette of Sark CHAPTER XVI 5/19
She looked round, and then straightened up in surprise. "Why, Phil? What are you doing here? One moment"-- and I saw that she was tying a bandage round the arm of the man in the bunk.
His eyes caught the light from the windows and gleamed savagely at me under his rumpled black hair.
A similar face looked out from an adjoining bunk.
When she had finished she came quickly across to me. "Measles again ?" I said, remembering my former visit. "Yes, measles," she said, with the colour in her face and questions in her eyes. "I came to see your father, and if I was in luck, yourself also, Carette." "He is sleeping," she said, with a glance towards a side room.
"He was anxious about these two, and he would take the night watch.
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