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"I wonder who he is?" she asked herself, conscious that she had never

seen any one like him, that he was in some way different to any one of

the htfully down the road, a strange feeling came

upon her; it was as if she had touched, if only with the finger tips,

the fringe of the great unknoorld

The doctor, breaking away frothy recountal of Mrs Lorton,

went upstairs to the spare rooe of the bed, very white, but very self-contained

"How do you do, doctor?" he said quietly "I've come a cropper and

knocked ood----"

"Take off your coat My good sir, why didn't you let them help you to

undress?" broke in the old man, with the curtness of the country doctor,

who, as a rule, is no respecter of persons

"I've given these good people trouble enough already," was the reply

"Thanks; no, you don't hurtto faint Thanks, thanks"

He got undressed and into bed, and the doctor "went over" hinet ring froer and

slipped it in his pocket

"Rather nasty knock on the head; broken arm--compound fracture,

unfortunately"