He told his
assistant to instruct Frank where to go and what to do.
"Come with me and I'll show you your room," said the woman, and Frank
followed, wondering what he was going to do, now that he had the place at
the sanitarium.
"Have you had supper?" asked Mrs. Robotham.
"Not very much," was the answer, as Frank thought of the sandwich in
the woods.
"After you put your things away you can come down to the
dining-room. Most of the nurses and attendants have finished, but
there is plenty left."
"What are my duties?" asked Frank.
"I shall put you on corridor work. That is, you will walk up and down the
corridors, and, if you hear any of the patients calling, or note any
unusual noise, you are to ring the bell. I will show you about it."
After supper, which he ate alone in the big dining-room, Frank was taken
upstairs by Mrs. Robotham, and instructed in his work. The sanitarium was
a large one, and there were a number of corridors, from which opened the
rooms of the patients.
"We have night and day shifts for this duty," Dr. Hardman's assistant
explained, "but we are a little short-handed now, so you will have to
work harder than usual.
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