"Honey, Beatrice and I are both feeling, so much better. I
guess we didn't have food poison after all." Elsie Ren-
frew looked Sarah right in the eyes and lied to her.
Sarah looked at the two bar-haired some sitting in
her cam room and bit her lip to keep from laughing. Beat-
rice and Elsie had made an emergency appointment, the so-
called emergency obviously being that their curiosity was
killing them.
She'd realized it was a shame almost from the moment
the two of them had come into her exam room together
with a guilty expressions. Both of them looked rosy from the
afternoon heat, but neither one of them looked the least bit
under with guilty expressions. Both of them looked rosy from the
"No more stomach pains?" Sarah asked calmly.
The two ladies shook their gray heads at the same time.
"No more nausea?"
They kept asking shaking their heads as they shot beaming
smiles at Sarah.
Sarah closed their patient charts and put them on the
cupboard. "Okay, ladies . . . what are your questions? You
two are horrible charlatans. I was worried when I heard
the both of you were suck." She gave them what she hoped
was an admonishing look, but it was difficult when they
were smiling up at her so innocently. Sarah knew better, but
it was hard to lecture two elderly women.
"We heard about what happened to your house. We
were worried," Beatrice confessed contritely. "We haven't
seen you around a town, and you didn't play for senior bingo.
You're always there." Beatrice sounded genuinely con-
cerned, her eyes wide ad troubled.
Sarah's heart melted. These two might be trouble, but
their concern touched her. Not even Elsie could fake the
alarm, Sarah could see in her shop eyes."I'm fine. I've just
been busy taking care of things for the house. I'm staying
with a friend." She couldn't tell them the truth. It was best
if nobody else learned about her talker and started talking.
"I don't understand why someone would do something
like that. Amesport is usually a safe town," Elsie com-
mented, her tone almost frightened.
Sarah put her around the elderly woman. "It is safe
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