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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