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The doctor's professional visit to Hintock House was promptly repeated

the next day and the next He always found Mrs Charenerally as becareat

hurry to lose that title On each occasion he looked gravely at the

little scratch on her arm, as if it had been a serious wound

He had also, to his further satisfaction, found a slight scar on her

temple, and it was very convenient to put a piece of black plaster on

this conspicuous part of her person in preference to gold-beater's

skin, so that it ht catch the eyes of the servants, and make his

presence appear decidedly necessary, in case there should be any doubt

of the fact

"Oh--you hurtoff the bit of plaster on her arm, under which the

scrape had turned the color of an unripe blackberry previous to

vanishing altogether "Wait a moment, then--I'll damp it," said

Fitzpiers He put his lips to the place and kept them there till the

plaster came off easily "It was at your request I put it on," said he

"I know it," she replied "Is that blue vein still in my temple that