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Meredith
ONCE WE ARRIVED HOME I took Sukey straight upstairs, saw her undressed and into bed. I rushed downstairs to fetch her a cup of cocoa and to see what the Captain was doing. Higgins was still up and had set out flasks of tea and a plate of sandwiches. The Captain was drinking down a mug of tea and chomping down a sandwich.
“I’ve phoned the vet. He’s waiting for us to take Bijou in to him.”
“Captain, you’re not driving. Not with a fever…and Dawn told me you had a wallop to your head.”
“Dawn and Dickie won’t be back for hours, and Higgins is too old to go charging about the countryside at this time of the morning.”
Higgins bristled at that. “Who’re you calling old, Cap’n. Not me.”
He snatched his coat off the back of the chair and stormed out to the car leaving the Cap
