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Updated: May 17, 2025
Everybody knew Lockwin, yet I doubt if he had more than one close acquaintance and that was Tarpion Doc. Tarpion." "Does the doctor act as her adviser in all these affairs? Did you read about the dedication? Did you know about the hospital? She had better keep her money. She'll need it." "She? Not much. She had a big estate from Judge Wandell's sister who died. The judge himself has no other heir.
The operator takes each word as the laborious Corkey, with short pencil, presses it into the buff-colored paper. Let it be! Will be at Collingwood to-morrow. David Lockwin reads the letter of Dr. Tarpion with horror. "Heavens and earth!" he cries, and pulls at his hair, rubs his eyes and stamps on the floor. "Heavens and earth!"
He usually charges fifty cents a visit, which is all he believes his services to be worth. This piece of quackery would ruin his name with Lockwin, were it known to him, or had Dr. Tarpion been consulted. The regular fee is two dollars. The poor come daily to Dr. Floddin's, and his fame is often in their mouths. Why is Davy white and beautiful? Why is he gentle and so marvelously intelligent?
He cares nothing for reputation. He cannot bear the thought that Dr. Tarpion, an old friend, should day by day burn the epistles that evinced so much scholarship, charity and sympathy. The lover is not poor. No man with $7,000 in his pocket is poor. He is not driven back to Esther by want, as it was before. That stings the man to recall it. No, he has means.
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