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Still, on the whole, sleep would have been better company and when at last he did drop off he did not relish being wakened by the voice of Ann at his door. "Doc-ter, doc-ter! Are you awake? Can I come in?" "I am not awake. Go away." Ann's giggle came clearly through the keyhole. "You've got a visitor," she whispered piercingly through the same medium. "A man. A well man, not a sick one.
Every hotel door was like the vent to a hive black with comers and goers. The old man with the cough medicine met them again. They could repeat his singsong cry now, and with a little impulse of fun-making Ida joined in with him: "Doc-ter Fergusson's double-ex selly-brated, Philadelphia cough drops, for coughs or colds, sore throat or hoarseness; five cents a package."
He drove by in style, lifted his chubby hand to his mother and shouted: "Dood-by, Doc-ter!" The Doctor waved a smiling answer, and lapsed into a long silence. He waked at last from his absorption to notice that Mary was day-dreaming. The fair brow was drawn into deep lines of brooding. "Why shadows in your eyes a day like this, little mother?" he asked softly. "Just thinking "
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