ill-reports

Updated: June 29, 2025

He was a man about whom were ill-reports. His wife had died some years before, and he had a housekeeper, a florid, blonde creature, dressed with dingy showiness, of whom people spoke with covert laughs. "All we want to know is why Doctor Gordon has never said that her was his wife, and not his sister," he said in a defiant nasal voice. The malignant Jim Goodman saw his chance.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - 'Doc.' Gordon