1906

COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY
MARY E. WILKINS-FREEMAN.

_Entered at Stationers' Hall.
All rights reserved_.

Composition and Electrotyping by
J.J. Little & Co.
Printed and bound by
Manhattan Press, New York.

[Illustration: (FACSIMILE PAGE OF MANUSCRIPT FROM DOC. GORDON)]




"DOC." GORDON




CHAPTER I


It was very early in the morning, it was scarcely dawn, when the young
man started upon a walk of twenty-five miles to reach Alton, where he
was to be assistant to the one physician in the place, Doctor Thomas
Gordon, or as he was familiarly called, "Doc." Gordon. The young man's