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Title: Red Pepper's Patients
With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular
Author: Grace S. Richmond
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Language: English
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RED PEPPER'S PATIENTS
With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular
by
GRACE S. RICHMOND
Garden City New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1918
[Illustration: FRONTISPIECE]
[Illustration: "Red Pepper" Burns, M.D.]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. AN INTELLIGENT PRESCRIPTION
II. LITTLE HUNGARY
III. ANNE LINTON'S TEMPERATURE
IV. TWO RED HEADS
V. SUSQUEHANNA
VI. HEAVY LOCAL MAILS
VII. WHITE LILACS
VIII. EXPERT DIAGNOSIS
IX. JORDAN IS A MAN
X. THE SURGICAL FIRING LINE
XI. THE ONLY SAFE PLACE
XII. THE TRUTH ABOUT SUSQUEHANNA
XIII. RED HEADED AGAIN
XIV. A STRANGE DAY
XV. CLEARED DECKS
XVI. WHITE LILACS AGAIN
XVII. RED'S DEAREST PATIENTS
CHAPTER I
AN INTELLIGENT PRESCRIPTION
The man in the silk-lined, London-made overcoat, holding his hat firmly
on his head lest the January wind send its expensive perfection into the
gutter, paused to ask his way of the man with no overcoat, his hands
shoved into his ragged pockets, his shapeless headgear crowded down over
his eyes, red and bleary with the piercing wind.
"Burns?" repeated the second man to the question of the first. "Doc
Burns? Sure! Next house beyond the corner--the brick one." He turned to
point. "Tell it by the rigs hitched. It's his office hours. You'll do
some waitin', tell ye that."
The questioner smiled--a slightly superior smile. "Thank you," he said,
and passed on. He arrived at the corner and paused briefly, considering
the row of vehicles in front of the old, low-lying brick house with its
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