Red Pepper Burns by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
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"Arthur's never so happy as when he's out with Red in the Green Imp," Winifred said to her guest as the roadster shot away under the elms which drooped beneath the arc light. "Doctor Burns is certainly the oddest man I ever saw," replied the guest, swinging idly in the hammock and watching the car out of sight down the long vista of the village street. "He hasn't given me one real good look yet. I suppose if I were a patient he would favour me with an all-seeing gaze out of those Irish-Scotch barbarian eyes of his, but as it is" - her voice was slightly petulant - "I believe I shall have to do as Arthur has: make up some symptoms and go over to his office." "If you do you'll get precisely the same treatment I presume Arthur had." Mrs. Chester laughed as she spoke. "I doubt very much whether he comes back with any headache medicine." "But he got a moonlight ride in that beauty of a car," the guest declared enviously. "That treatment would suit me wonderfully well, whatever was the matter." "Would you have gone with him in his shirt-sleeves? He's plainly in a shirt-sleeve mood to-night." "I think a drive in the moonlight with a `brute of a saint' in shirt-sleeves, with arms like those, might be interesting," mused the guest, indicating invisible patterns on the porch with the toe of a white slipper. |
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