AND SO TO BED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)

AND SO TO BED.

Golly is wide awake. And Dolly's fast asleep. And liinkie Boy, with all the toys Lies huddled in a heap. ] wonder what they really do When 1 am tucked in bed; Oh. will they go to Sliul-Kyc Tow Or play all night instead?

to help herself. When he reached the top of the lower lie put her on her feet, but she swayed and would have fallen if lie had not caught her. When Pat came to she was lying on the grass outside the tower, and Sir John was bending over her with a flask of whisky in his hand. The. boy was lying neiir her, still unconscious.' ' "Keeling better':" asked Sir John, kindly. "Oh, I'm quite all right, really," said Pat, sitting up. "Jt was awfully silly of me. I suppose it was because I was so scared. I've always been frightened of climbing. 1 suppose it's because I once foil over a elillV' "Von needn't apologise," said Sir John, with an admiring look. ''That only makes it all the more plucky of you to do what you did. Now let's'have "a look at old Jim." Pat suggested using her towel to bandage his head, and Sir John went back to the tower for it. He would not let Pat go. He fixed the bandages under Pat's direction—she had learnt her first aid— her fingers, were too sore to do so herself. "By the way," he said, "the door of the tower was'locked. Queer, wasn't it? Were you locked in!" "Yes," said Pat. "If it hadn't been for that I'd have never eecn Jim. I was looking over to see if there was any way of getting down when I saw him." "Oh, well, it's an ill wind that never blows anybody any good." In a few minutes they were all in the car, Jim lying on the back seat and Pat beside Sir John. "15ut, I say," he said, glancing at her tie, "you come from St. Celia's. Aren't you going in for my prize examination. The examination's this afternoon, isn't it V" "Yes," said Pat, "I was going in for it, but I'm afraid that I'll be too late." She looked at "nor wrist watch. "I ought to be there in 20 minutes." "And so you shall. I'll run you there myself, after I've left Jim 'at the, doctor's." He pressed his foot on the accelerator, and the great car shot forward. I (To be continued next Saturday.)