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Updated: June 10, 2025
He entered his female ward just as evening prayers were finished, before the lights were turned out and night began for the patients. He summoned his trusted assistant, the house-physician, again. "I am about to attempt," said he, "an altogether new operation: the patient has remained just as I left her, I suppose?" "Just the same."
Dr Lefevre was thus passing round his female ward, with a train of attentive students at his heels, when the door was swung open and two attendants entered, bearing a stretcher between them, and accompanied by the house-physician and a policeman.
He stood looking down upon her irresolutely. Then he tiptoed away, meeting at the door the house-physician. "How long?" asked the lawyer, jerkily. "Probably until morning. Or at any minute," said the doctor, indifferently. He thought it the best thing Gracie could do. Vandervelde nodded.
She was not actually ill, but she suffered cruelly from the heat, and she had always been wont to see her worthy old house-physician every day, to hear all the latest gossip, and complain of her little ailments when anything went wrong with her usually sound health.
And Marcia, when he ventured to speak to her about the matter, said cryptically: "Why worry? What is to be, will be. Kismet, Jason, kismet!" On a certain afternoon the house-physician telephoned Mr. Vandervelde that the girl Gracie was very low, and that she had asked for him.
She was not actually ill, but she suffered cruelly from the heat, and she had always been wont to see her worthy old house-physician every day, to hear all the latest gossip, and complain of her little ailments when anything went wrong with her usually sound health.
"Now, you will observe that he could not have been on the staff of the hospital, since only a man well-established in a London practice could hold such a position, and such a one would not drift into the country. What was he, then? If he was in the hospital and yet not on the staff he could only have been a house-surgeon or a house-physician little more than a senior student.
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