A BAR OF SOAP
Late that evening Betty Mercer and Dallas were writing verses of condolence to be signed by all of us and put under the door into Jim's room when Bella came running down the stairs.
Dal was reading the first verse when she came. "Listen to this, Bella," he said triumphantly:
Then he caught sight of Bella's face as she stood in the doorway, and stopped.
"Jim is delirious!" she announced tragically. "You shut him in there all alone and now he's delirious. I'll never forgive any of you."
"Delirious!" everybody exclaimed.
"He was sane enough when I took him his chicken broth," Mr. Harbison said. "He was almost fluent."
"He is stark, staring crazy," Bella insisted hysterically. "I--I locked the door carefully when I went down to my dinner, and when I came up it--it was unlo
