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At first going in, Ellen saw nobody in the post-office; presently, at an opening in a kind of boxed-up place in one corner, a face looked out and asked what she wanted. "Is Dr. Gibson here?" "No," said the owner of the face, with a disagreeable kind of smile. "Isn't this Miss Perriman's house?" "You are in the right box, my dear, and no mistake," said the young man; "but then it ain't Dr.
Sam! you lazy feller, you han't got nothing to do but gape at folks ha' you seen the doctor go by this forenoon?" "I seen him go down to Mis' Perriman's," said Sam, "Mis' Perriman was a-dyin', Jim Barstow said." "How long since?" said his mistress. But Sam shuffled and shuffled, looked every way but at Ellen or Mrs. Forbes, and "didn' know." "Well, then," said Mrs.
"It's that white-faced house down street," said the landlady, pointing with her finger where Ellen saw no lack of white- faced houses; "you see that big red store, with the man standing out in front? the next white house below that is Mis' Perriman's; just run right in and ask for Dr. Gibson. Good-bye, dear I'm real sorry you can't come in that first white house."
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