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CHAPTER TEN.

TWO BOYS AND A DOCTOR.


Young Jack Schuyler and young Blake, a week later, went to see the
doctor in his office. He looked up from his paper.

"Well?" he said.

Tom Blake cleared his throat.

"We wanted to ask you, Doctor," he began, "if--"

"Eh," assisted Jack Schuyler; "that is, we wanted to know--"

"--you see, that is--I--"

"--yes, we thought--"

"--you know, Mrs. Blair--"

The doctor rose; he stood between the two broad-shouldered, erect young
men, placing a hand on the arm of each.