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Jedd two or three times a day and every one in villas adjoining and villas opposite, and even in villas round the corner, knew that the stockbroker's stepdaughter lay sick unto death; for the white horses of Dr. Jedd's landau were as the pale horse of the Pale Rider himself, and where they came was danger or death.
"I can give you the name of the best man to get to the bottom of such a case a man who gave evidence on the Fryar trial Jedd. You have heard of Jedd, I daresay. You had better go straight to Jedd, and take him down with you to Miss Halliday. His very name will frighten Sheldon." "I will go at once. Stay the address! Where am I to find Dr. Jedd?" "In Burlington Row.
He sat there in a kind of stupor. He had lost the power of thought, somehow, on that dreary journey. It seemed almost as if he had left some portion of his being out yonder in the cold and darkness. He had difficulty in remembering why he had come to this place, and what that deed was which he meant to do. "Hawkehurst," he muttered to himself "Hawkehurst, the man who leagued against me with Jedd!
I have given your housekeeper all directions as to treatment and diet, and she has my orders to allow no one but herself in the invalid's room. There is a marked tendency to delirium, and quiet is indispensable." "I have said as much myself," answered Mr. Sheldon. "Mr. Hawkehurst will undertake to see to the making-up of my prescriptions," continued Dr. Jedd, as he drew on his gloves.
Jedd, and Dr. What would it amount to in the future of his own existence? Prudential considerations would induce these people to lock the secret of this suspicion in their own breasts. Dr. Jedd would bow to him somewhat coldly, perhaps, if they met in the streets of London, or possibly might refuse to make any return to his passing salutation; but the cut direct from Dr.
With the copy of the certificate, he had taken from his pocket the letter that had enclosed it. He saw now that the envelope was addressed in Hawkehurst's hand. "Favoured by Dr. Jedd," he had written in a corner of the envelope. Why should Dr. Jedd "favour" Mr. Hawkehurst's letter? Why, indeed, unless there had been a conspiracy concocted by these men against his authority and his interests?
If he had been a citizen of the Southern States, he might have suborned witnesses to prove that there was black blood in the veins of Valentine Hawkehurst. If he had not been opposed to so strong an opponent as Dr. Jedd, he might have tried to get a commission of lunacy to declare Charlotte Halliday a madwoman, and thus invalidate her marriage. As it was, he knew that he could do nothing.
At five o'clock I shall be at the London Bridge station. Until then, gentlemen, good day. Lawson, the door." Dr. Jedd left his visitors to follow the respectable white-cravatted butler, and darted back to his consulting-room. Mr. Burkham and Valentine walked slowly up and down Burlington Row before the latter returned to his cab.
The time had come in which he would assert his right to be master in his own house. The game had been played against him boldly by Jedd and these people, and had been lost by them. He was the winner. He could not dismiss doctors, nurse, friend, lover. Charlotte Halliday's death made him master of the situation. He went into his house with the determination to assert his authority at once.
The poor girl had great expectations, and would have come into a very fine fortune if she had lived a year or two longer." "Ha! dear me, how very unfortunate! Poor young lady!" "Jedd and Doddleson you know them by repute, of course have been attending her for the last six weeks. There will be no end of expense for me; and it has been all of no use." "Consumption, I suppose?"
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