Nightcall — Adeline McElfresh

EMERGENCY!

To Nurse Lyn Jennings, hurrying through Carter Memorial's cool white corridors, emergencies were part of the life she had chosen -- the challenging, exciting world of a hospital at night:

--in the operating room, a valiant struggle to stem a sudden hemorrhage --

--in 212, a lonely, crying child, afraid to go to sleep without its mother --

--in the driveway, an ambulance shrieking to a halt after a race with death, bearing the victims of a highway collision --

--in the darkened supply room, storage place for drugs and narcotics, a mysterious figure moving toward a cabinet, no long able to resist temptation.