Scream Once for Help

Scream Once for Help - book excerpt:

“Betty!” she exclaimed, “I’m so glad you’re all right!”

“We’ve been worried sick!” Patience chimed in, and pulled herself up by her walker.

“Of course I’m all right! Where is that throw rug?” Betty demanded.

“I put it back by your bed,” Florence replied meekly.

“Why did you do that?! I wanted Hank to see that it was right in front of the door!”

Then, as if realizing the mere fact of the rug being in front of the door didn’t prove that someone else had put it there, Betty’s eyes filled with tears.

“Oh, Betty,” Florence sighed sympathetically, and hurried into the bedroom. She returned with the throw rug and tossed it into a pile by the front door. “Is that better?” she asked.