this; some one in Wall Street is doing this. But I'll find him
-- I'll -- " he was interrupted by the entrance of the butler
and Dr. Rainey, Mr. Hallowell's personal physician.

Rainey was a young man with a weak face, and knowing, shifting
eyes that blinked behind a pair of eyeglasses. To conceal an
indecision of character of which he was quite conscious, he
assumed a manner that, according to whom he addressed, was
familiar or condescending. At one of the big hospitals he had
been an ambulance surgeon and resident physician, later he had
started upon a somewhat doubtful career as a medical "expert."
Only two years had passed since the police and the reporters of
the Tenderloin had ceased calling him "Doc." In a celebrated
criminal case in which Gaylor had acted as chief counsel, he had
found Rainey complaisant and apparently totally without the
moral sense. And when in Garrett he had discovered for Mr.
Hallowell a model servant, he had also urged upon his friend,
for his resident physician, his protege Rainey.

Still at white heat, the older man began abruptly: "This
gentleman is from the Republic. He is going to publish a story
that Mr. Hallowell has fallen under the influence of mediums,
clairvoyants; that everything he does is on advice from the
spirit world -- " he turned sharply upon Lee. "Is that right?"
The reporter nodded.

"You can see the effect of such a story. It would invalidate
every act of Mr. Hallowell's!"

Dr. Rainey laughed offensively.