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I the Old One, I the Wise One, I the Isanusi, the witch doctress!" Then she turned her bald vulture-head towards us. "What seek ye, white men of the Stars ah, yes, of the Stars? Do ye seek a lost one? Ye shall not find him here. He is not here. Never for ages upon ages has a white foot pressed this land; never except once, and I remember that he left it but to die.
"Shall I tell her?" said Severne, with the manner of one eager to be agreeable to the visitor. "If you please, sir," said Miss Gale. Severne went out zealously, darted up to Zoe's room, knocked, and said, "Pray come down: here is that doctress." Meantime, Jack was giving Gill the card, and Gill was giving it Mary to give to the lady. It got to Zoe's room in a quarter of an hour.
She already has made friends with all the workmen at Woodlawn, and acts in the capacity of Doctress to their families." This was Wednesday; and Saturday Mr. Rand came again, gayly announced by Bertie, who cried out, "Mamma, here's the architect." The plan was examined and highly approved. The whole party rode to the lake, where Mr. Rand helped Mr.
John, who first nursed him, he went to the herb doctress, and she took charge of him, and cured him, too, although the skill of the most famous doctors and surgeons had failed to help him.
Old Phillis, Mabel's nurse and the doctress of the plantation albeit a less zealous devotee than her master had intimated of the potent beverages left within her reach, ostensibly for the use of her patient should he revive sufficiently to swallow a few drops was yet too drowsy from the fatigues of the day, sundry cups of Christmas egg-nogg, and the obesity of age, to maintain alert vigil over one she, in common with her fellow-servitors, scorned as an aggravated specimen of the always and ever-to-be despicable genus, "poor white folks."
Shortly afterwards, and when my reeling senses were barely sane enough to enable me to recognise objects, my dear doctress, with two more Negresses, to witness to her reputation, entered, and putting the bottle of port, with a white powder floating at the top of it, into a china bowl, compelled me to drink off the whole of it.
Doctress Gale then requested Ina to leave the room, while she questioned the patient. Ina retired. In a moment or two Miss Gale came out to her softly. At sight of her face, La Klosking said, "Oh, dear; it is more serious than we thought." "Very serious. "Poor Edward!" "Collect all your courage, for I cannot lie, either to patient or friend." "And you are right," said La Klosking, trembling.
There were sixteen men in pursuit of the doctress, and sixteen gun-shot wounds were found in her body when examined by the surgeon of the post. The killing of the woman was a flagrant and defiant outrage committed in the teeth of the military authority, yet done so quickly that we could not prevent it.
I asked him who had collected the things. He replied the doctress Nombe had done so and had brought him the horse saddled to carry them. He did not know who saddled the horse as he had seen no one but Nombe to whom he had given the writing which she hid away. In answer to further questions, he said that Nombe had sent me a message. It was
There were sixteen men in pursuit of the doctress, and sixteen gun-shot wounds were found in her body when examined by the surgeon of the post. The killing of the woman was a flagrant and defiant outrage committed in the teeth of the military authority, yet done so quickly that we could not prevent it.
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