But it would have been shabby to leave Stillbury to battle alone with this rush of work or to seek the services of a strange assistant.
"I should like to get off as soon as you can spare me," I replied, "but I'm not going to leave you in the lurch." "That's a good fellow," said Stillbury.

"I knew you wouldn't.

Let us have some tea and divide up the work.

Anything of interest going ?" There were one or two unusual cases on the list, and, as we marked off our respective patients, I gave him the histories in brief synopsis.

And then I opened the subject of my mysterious experiences at the house of Mr.Weiss.
"There's another affair that I want to tell you about; rather an unpleasant business." "Oh, dear!" exclaimed Stillbury.