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Chapter XXXII
“YOU slept quite well for a time,” the girl told him, lovingly and gently. “Is there anything you would like me to do?”
“Nothing,” the Colonel said. “Thank you.”
Then he turned bad and he said, “Daughter I could sleep good straight up and down in the electric chair with my pants slit and my hair clipped. I sleep as, and when, I need it.”
“I can never be like that,” the girl said, sleepily. “I sleep when I am sleepy.”
“You’re lovely,” the Colonel told her. “And you sleep better than anyone ever slept.”
“I am not proud of it,” the girl said, very sleepily. “It is just something that I do.”
“Do it, please.”
“No. Tell me very low and soft and put your bad hand in mine.”
