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Bit by bit , she went on with her outline of the campaign ; testing each step and proving the practicability of each . The next Thursday evening , Rennick and his wife went , as usual , to the weekly meeting of a neighborhood bridge club which they had joined for the summer . The baby was left in charge of a competent nurse . At nine o'clock , the nurse went to the telephone in reply to a call purporting to be from an attendant at a New York hospital . This call occupied the best part of twenty minutes . For the attendant proceeded to tell her in a very roundabout way that her son had been run over and had come to the hospital with a broken leg . He dribbled the information ; and was agonizingly long-winded and vague in answering her volley of frightened questions .