complexion had regained its clear loveliness.

She went to a hardware store and brought back a sunray lamp, under which she lay a while every day in shorts and halter till she again had a nice tan. She had Mrs. Ackerman come up and shovel the snow off the paths in the courtyard. Then dressed in warm clothing, Charlene walked in the cold wind, ran, threw snowballs, till her cheeks glowed pink. She felt good and slept and ate well, and when spring came, she was full of good health and vigor.

Because of an accident Charlene conceived the idea of putting a "tenant" in each apartment. She was in the kitchen slicing one of the last of the oranges Ann- ette had brought from the supermarket, when the knife slipped and she cut her finger. There was no antisept- ic of any kind to put on it, and no bandages to wrap it in. She wrapped it in a clean dish towel and drove to a drugstore to get some mercurochrome or something to put on it.

When she unwrapped the crude bandage she saw that it was only a slight cut. But she realized that she might get hurt seriously, or even become ill some day, and she resolved to lay in a supply of medical supplies.

"Why don't I play nurse while I gather the mater- ials," she asked herself aloud. I could play nurse like I play Annette. I could give her an apartment- let's say No. 4 at the foot of the stairs. Her name can be "Flo".

So she got several nurses uniforms complete, along with such street wear as she thought a nurse would need. She also got a Ford for Flo to drive, and put it in its own stall in the garage with the other cars. Flo made several trips to drugstores to pick up medical supplies. Once she drove to a hospital, and walked through some of the corridors and into several rooms, pretending to be a nurse on duty, but it was too gruesome, and she never did it again.

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One day in May she saw a bridal gown in a shop window and decided to add another tenant- a bride, "Lucille". So Lucille dressed up and went shopping

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