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Updated: July 19, 2025
The sole occupants of the doctor's house were his housekeeper, an elderly and most respectable woman, named Martha Woods, and a young servant Mary Pilling. The coachman and the surgery-boy slept out. It was the custom of the doctor to sit at night in his study, which was next the surgery in the wing of the house which was farthest from the servants' quarters.
"He is generally in afore the tray, whatever the meals may be, he is." She went out at the side door, and entered the surgery. Nobody was in it except the surgery-boy. The boy was asleep, with his head and arms on the counter, and the gas flared away over him.
"I say, Jan," said he, "can't you look where your going?" "Can't you look?" returned Jan. "Where are you off to?" "There's something the matter at Duff's. About a dozen came here in a body, wanting you. Bob says Dan Duff was dying." Jan turned his eyes on Bob, the surgery-boy. Bob answered the look "It's what they said, sir. They said as Dan Duff was a-dying and a-frothing at the mouth.
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