Chapter 3
Where am I?- asked a thin voice
Marguerete and Veronica stood above the invalid, who just had opened his eyes, and become scared when recognized only a thin sheet covered his boy.
-My name is Marguerete Krux, and she is Veronica Layton. Our friends have found you not so long.
-Where is Richard? - asked again, trying to sit up, only to fall back, because of a terrible headache.
-Stay calm! He will be here soon too. There will be everything fine! - said Veronica
-But – interrupted Marguerete. -I would like to know for any case, what makes a young lady, to walk in the world in a boy's clothes, with a wig on her head and bandages breasts?
Ned arrived, when Roxton and Challenger bandaged the man's legs. The reporter took down the stretcher and the emergency box, and said:
-How is he?
-We found a rather bad injury on his leg, but in a week it will be more than perfect. He is still unconscious, maybe from the knock that caused this hump in his head.
- But the see dropped out some things; they can be useful in the future. - showed Roxton a few trunk, he brought in one place.
- What are they contains?
-I don't know, we have no time to open them…
-And you will wait more gentlemen! Please help me lay him on the stretcher.
After that Roxton started speaking:
It seems what the boy spared in weight, he got on him.
Don't say that. It's a normal weight. Maybe you Roxton…- grinned Ned. - But a question is raised: Is this stretcher safety Challenger?
Absolute! I've tried it on myself!
Yeah? And how are you George?- laughed Roxton
John, it seems to me, that you're in an excellent mood. Are you so happy, that we will have new housemates?
-Please, don't tell him!
-What?-asked Veronica
-Please don't tell it to anyone! - Now, she almost sobbed- They mustn't know it! Please, please!
The two women were astonished at the girl's reaction for a moment, than started to calm her.
-We won't tell it anyone, we promise- said Veronica holding her hand, and sitting by her bedside
Marguerete took seat in a chair near the bed, and took a peace of wet clothes on the forehead of the girl. She couldn't explain, but she sympathized with her. Maybe, because if somebody, she knew what is like to have secrets…
- Of course we won't! But… You must admit that we can't keep it in secret for too long. In this plateau we're just for each other, we have no privacy. You can say, everybody is always near somebody, that's the price of surviving.
The girl just stared at her. "What kind of surviving?Plateau? Who are these everybody?" and a lot of more question formed in her. The two women could see it in her eyes.
- But- continues Marguerete- if we help you to keep your secret, I think, at least you can explain the reasons of it. Am I right?
The big brown eyes wandered between her hostesses. She was very tired. She had to trust in them. That was the only way.
It' quite a long story.
Than start it, an we will see how far we get.- encouraged her Veronica
She answered with a tired smile, than began to talk.
- My name is Charles… oh sorry Charlotte Dunn. It started two month ago, when I became twenty…
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