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Title: The Lady Doc

Author: Caroline Lockhart

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THE LADY DOC

by

CAROLINE LOCKHART

Author of
"The Man from Bitter Roots," "The Fighting Shepherdess"

Frontispiece by Gayle Hoskins

[Illustration: "No, Essie Tisdale, I can't just see you in any such
setting as that"]

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with J. B. Lippincott Company

Copyright, 1912,
by J. B. Lippincott Company

Published September, 1912

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The "Canuck" That Saved Flour Gold 9
II. The Humor of the Fate Lachesis 17
III. A Mesalliance 31
IV. "The Ground Floor" 43
V. Another Case in Surgery 56
VI. "The Church Racket" 70
VII. The Sheep From the Goats 77
VIII. "The Chance of a Lifetime" 90
IX. The Ways of Polite Society 99
X. Essie Tisdale's Enforced Abnegation 110
XI. The Opening Wedge 120
XII. Their First Clash 127
XIII. Essie Tisdale's Colors 139
XIV. "The Ethics of the Pro