The amazing adventures of Letitia Carberry

Strictly speaking, this is Tish’s story, but Tish is unable to write it, being laid up, as you probably know from the newspapers. But we all three felt that a record of the affa...

Aggie was really frightfully upset. Aggie is rather emotional at any time, and although she herself is a Methodist, her mother’s only sister had been a believer in Spiritualism....

Now Tish is a peculiar woman. Once she starts a thing, whether it is house-cleaning or learning to roller skate, she keeps right on at it. She learned to skate backwards, you ma...

Well, Tish and I examined the room, and I must say at first sight it was disappointing. It was an ordinary hospital room, with two windows, and a bureau between them, a washstan...

Now Aggie has hay fever, and the slightest excitement, any time in the year, starts her off. So when we heard her sneezing as we went down the stairs, we were not surprised to f...

Tish sent Miss Lewis in to sit with Aggie, and the three of us, including Tommy, met in Tish’s room. She had brought her alcohol teakettle with her, and she insisted on making a...

Miss Lewis had heard the crash and came running, with the hall nurse from the floor below. Tish was sitting on the floor among the pieces of glass, with Tommy’s head on her knee...

“I shall certaidly tell Tobby whad I thig of hib,” she grumbled. “I told hib I could dot hold that therbobeter. _That_ is what gave be that dreab. If it _was_ a dreab!”

After all, it was my suggestion that we bring in Briggs, the orderly, and ask him about the night Johnson’s body was moved. Tish acknowledges this, and if she does not realize h...

“Good!” Tommy said heartily. It was evident to us all how relieved he was. “But I don’t like the pulse.” He was brushing his hair back with Tish’s brush. “She’s had a terrific s...

It is curious to think that if Tish had been able to finish her story to Tommy Andrews that evening, and to have given him Charlie’s letter to read, the thing that occurred that...

Tommy was very gloomy that night. He went about placing guards, with his mouth set in a grim line and his eyes hard. A few of the nurses knew what was going on, but with the exc...

As I have said, Tommy came in about dawn. Miss Lewis had dropped into an uneasy sleep, and Tish was dozing in the chair beside her; Aggie was stretched out on the couch, with a...

Tish stared at me the next morning when I told her the story Tommy had told me, and laid the key of the mortuary linen closet on her breakfast tray.

Aggie being better, and having declared that no power on earth would make her spend another night in the place, we planned to leave about noon that day. But Tish’s astonishing c...

“I haven’t time,” he said. “I’m helping out in the wards to-day. One of the day orderlies has to take Mr. Briggs’ place to-night, and he has gone to bed to get some sleep.”

We came back in an hour to find Tish waiting with her bonnet still on, and in a more agreeable frame of mind. She asked Tommy and me to go around the hospital with her, but refu...

Well, that’s all there was to it. As I said at the beginning, this is really Tish’s story. She told us the whole thing that night sitting up in bed, with the Chief of Police and...

Miss Lizzie’s narrative stops here. My Aunt Letitia, during her convalescence in the hospital, having been discovered poring over books of aerial navigation, and having written...

It was three o’clock in the morning when we got back to the lake, and it was twenty minutes before Carpenter heard us and started the ferry across. Tish had lost her glasses in...

Both Aggie and I had objected when Tish talked of buying an automobile. But the more you talk against a thing to Tish the more she wants it. It was just the same the time her ni...

I have always felt that we did the right thing that night. It was all very well for Charlie Sands, Tish’s nephew, when he heard the story, to say: “And they talk about giving wo...

We didn’t talk very much. Tish was anxious to show she could drive, for all she had sat us down in a ditch, and after she took a wrong turning and stampeded a herd that was bein...

I screamed, and, as was perfectly natural, I backed away from the thing. My foot tripped over Tish’s water-pitcher, and my sitting down was what wakened Aggie. She says she neve...

Now I am not defending what followed. But the Lewis man had been nice to us, and, as Tish said tartly to Charlie Sands, women who had lived in single blessedness as long as we h...

Nothing would have induced me to tell the scandalous story had it not been for Letitia’s green kimono. But when it was found at the Watermelon Camp, two miles from our cottage,...

The dog was put ashore under our very noses, by the crew of a passing launch. We were knitting on our veranda that afternoon, looking across at Sunset Island, which is four mile...

Well, Tish and I got the boat loose, and Tish dropped the scissors into the water. Then when we got in, Tish insisted on rowing with her face to the bow of the boat. She said sh...

It was some time before we could realize that eternity had ceased staring us in the face and had taken a back seat, so to speak. The first thing Tish said was that, man or no ma...

It is a little difficult, looking back, to explain our state of mind that night. It was only our second taste of romance--Aggie’s roofer being too far back to count. Now, with s...

We got them all into the launch finally, for there was only five feet of water, which explained much that we had not understood about the fight, and they were as disconsolate lo...