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His friend, Doctor Crandall, was awaiting him, and together they made their way at once to the sick-room. "This is an urgent case, I suppose," said Doctor Schimpf. "I am afraid so," was the reply. "You will be able to judge when you see the patient." Doctor Schimpf's stern face grew sterner still as he made his examination of poor Jessie.
There was a stir without, and a hugely fat man in a black cape fastened with a silver chain and velvet collar entered. Al Schimpf's face was so burdened with rolling chins that he disregarded the customary fashion of whiskers, but a grizzled moustache lay above his well-formed lips, and an imperial divided his heavy, aggressive chin.
Stephen Jannan's handsome countenance was fixed and pale; one hand lay on the table, empty and still. In the silence between Schimpf's insistent periods Jasper Penny could hear Essie's sobbing inspirations; he was unable to keep his gaze from her countenance, jelly-like and robbed of every trace of human dignity.
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