sister-druggist

Updated: May 11, 2025

Instead of coming, as he did every day before making the rounds, into the office of the sister-druggist, he went straight up to the room of the lady superior. There, after the usual salutations, he said, "They have no doubt brought you, my sister, last night, a patient, an idiot, called Cocoleu?" "Yes, doctor." "Where has he been put?"

Emile Gaboriau - Within an Inch of His Life