And she related the details;--clever yet utterly simple details, and fraught with safety to all concerned;--details which, for that very reason, need not be cited here.
Bit by bit, she went on with her outline of the campaign; testing each step and proving the practicability of each.
The next Thursday evening, Rennick and his wife went, as usual, to the weekly meeting of a neighborhood bridge club which they had joined for the summer.

The baby was left in charge of a competent nurse.

At nine o'clock, the nurse went to the telephone in reply to a call purporting to be from an attendant at a New York hospital.
This call occupied the best part of twenty minutes.

For the attendant proceeded to tell her in a very roundabout way that her son had been run over and had come to the hospital with a broken leg.

He dribbled the information; and was agonizingly long-winded and vague in answering her volley of frightened questions.
Shaken between duty to her job and a yearning to catch the next train for town, the nurse went back at last to the nursery.