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Round the Red Lamp by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"I have not the pleasure of his acquaintance."

"No?--that's queer too. He knows you and thinks
a lot of your opinion. You're a stranger in the
town, are you not?"

"Yes, I have only been here a very short time."

"That was what Mason said. He didn't give me the
address. Said he would call on you and bring you,
but when the wife got worse of course I inquired for
you and sent for you direct. I sent for Mason, too,
but he was out. However, we can't wait for him, so
just run away upstairs and do what you can."

"Well, I am placed in a rather delicate
position," said Dr. Horace Wilkinson, with some
hesitation. "I am here, as I understand, to meet my
colleague, Dr. Mason, in consultation. It would,
perhaps, hardly be correct for me to see the patient
in his absence. I think that I would rather wait."

"Would you, by Jove! Do you think I'll let my
wife get worse while the doctor is coolly kicking his
heels in the room below? No, sir, I am a plain man,
and I tell you that you will either go up or go out."

The style of speech jarred upon the doctor's
sense of the fitness of things, but still when a
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