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At eight o'clock he was seated at breakfast in the hastily-arranged dining-room, with the newspapers by the side of his cup and saucer. At nine he went into the hall to receive Dr. Jedd and Dr. Doddleson, who arrived almost simultaneously. His carefully-arranged hair and whiskers, his well made unpretentious clothes, his spotless linen, would have done credit to an archbishop.

But on the other hand, the circumstantial evidence against him was very strong; and evidence which might be insufficient to prove him guilty in a trial for his life might be a sufficient defence for his enemies against an action for slander; if, indeed, the course which Dr. Jedd and Valentine Hawkehurst had taken did in itself constitute a slanderous and malicious imputation.

I shall try to be in Burlington Row in an hour from this time; but in any case you will wait there till I come. I suppose, in a desperate case like this, Dr. Jedd will put aside all less urgent work?" "No doubt of that." "I trust to you to secure his sympathy," said Valentine. He was in the darksome entrance-hall by this time. Mr. Burkham followed, and opened the door for him.

Hawkehurst, with her health and spirits thoroughly re-established," said Dr. Jedd. "What is that you say about honeymoon tours?" cried Gustave Lenoble. "Hawkehurst and his wife will spend their honeymoon at Cotenoir; is it not, Diana?" Diana replied that it was to be, and must be so.

Upwards of a week had gone by since the return of Mr. Sheldon and his family from Harold's Hill: and as yet Philip Sheldon knew not what the issue of events was to be. Very vague were the oracular sentences which his questioning extorted from Dr. Jedd, and he had tried in vain to obtain a tete-a-tete interview with Dr. Doddleson.

Jedd Deane, with his most pronounced Websterian air he was always oscillating between the manner of Webster and that of Rufus Choate to pay his respects to James Dutton, which was considered a great compliment indeed.

Jedd will commit himself to no positive statement. He tells me she is in danger, but he does not refuse all hope. Now listen, my dear. In that house I have only two people to help me Ann Woolper and yourself. Ann Woolper I hold only by a feeble bond. I think she will be true to us; but I am not sure of her.

Jedd would not cast a shadow over his commercial career, or even weaken his social position. If, by the loud folly of Hawkehurst, some evil rumour about him should float as far eastward as the Stock Exchange, who would be found to give credence to the dark report?

Jedd his chief hope rested. "Do you believe me now?" he asked of Mrs. Woolper as he went out into the hall. "I do," she answered in a whisper; "and I will do what you want." She took his hand in her wrinkled horny palm and grasped it firmly. He felt that in this firm pressure there was a promise sacred as any oath ever registered on earth. He met Mr.

Jedd, looking at one prescription. "Quinine, yes; aqua pura," he murmured, looking at another. He threw them aside with a half-contemptuous gesture, and then took up a pen and began to write. "My mode of treatment will be quite different from that adopted by Dr. Doddleson," he said; "but I apprehend no difficulty in bringing that gentleman round to my view of the case when we meet."