17/29 The girl said that that certainly was so. Doctor Bliven then volunteered the assertion that Mr.Gowdy seemed to be a fine fellow, and a gentleman if he ever saw one. Just then the woman came from across the road again and asked for "the man who was a doctor." "I'm a doctor," said Bliven. "Somebody wants me ?" She said that Mr.Gowdy would like to have him come into the house--and he went hurriedly, after taking a medicine-case from his democrat wagon. He returned her greeting, and they went through the door together into the house. |