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Page 19
"Wasn't it funny?" said the nurse. "I suppose he is so crazy
over you, boy-like, that he wanted to see your tall boots. Don't
you suppose so?"
"Probably," said the Captain. He put a hand over the side of the
bed, and felt to see if his boots were there. Then he grew so
quiet that the nurse slipped softly away, thinking him asleep.
When she had gone he did a strange thing. He took those boots,
dusty as they were and, placing them under the pillow, went to
sleep. But in the morning, although the nurse came in very
early, the boots were under the bed.
"If he comes in this morning, send him up here, won't you?" he
begged. "It would amuse me so; and I don't want to get up until
afternoon. I would be so charmed to meet that funny little boy.
My boots! How droll!"
About ten o'clock two boys strolled into the office and passed
the nurses' sitting-room. The dimply nurse seized on one of
them.
"I am so glad you have come!" she said.
"Captain DuChassis wants to see you. I told him how you came in
and asked for him yesterday."
She went on. "I can't go up for another hour; so you can both go
up and amuse him. I am sure he will tell you wonderful things
about the other side. Through the office and upstairs, boys."
She shooed them out and Beany and Asa stopped outside the door
and consulted.
Asa was a good boy but about as progressive as a potato, and
something the color of a peeled one. No amount of sun tanned
him. It made his eye-lashes whiter if anything, and his lips
paler.
"Were you here at all yesterday?" demanded Beany.
"Oh, yes," said Asa. "Twice."
"Well, then, listen here. I want you should go up there, and
when he says are you the boy who was here yesterday, you say yes,
and don't say anything else if you can help it. See?"
"Oh, yes," said Asa, who did not see at all, but who did not let
that bother lot that bother him in the least.
"Mind!" said Beany sternly. "I don't want him to know about me
or Porky at all. There are reasons; Scout reasons, Asa, so you
mind out. Got that through your nut?"
"Oh, yes," said Asa, blinking his white lashes.
"You ain't afraid of him, are you?" asked Beany, remembering the
Wolf's keen eye.
"Oh, no," said Asa.
When Asa came down in a few minutes, he seemed rather upset--for
Asa. He blinked rapidly, and there was something so worried in
his open smile that Beany felt conscience-stricken to think he
had sent him on such an errand. He rose, and they walked rapidly
away, for Asa seemed to be thinking deeply.
When they reached the seats around the bandstand, deserted so
early in the morning, Beany sat down.
"Well, let's have it," he demanded.
"That's a funny guy," said Asa, twirling his Scout hat rapidly in
his pale bands. "I did just what you said. I went in, and I
said, 'Morning!' at all. He just looked at me until I felt like
I wasn't there at all; and he smiled softer than anything I ever
see except, some one--I can't think who it was. Well, I did what
you said, and he said--"
"What did you do that I said?" said Beany anxiously.
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