psy; and
you, Mr. Ross, have, I am told, experienced something of the same
effects. I know this"--here his eyebrows came down more than ever, and
his mouth hardened--"if I were in charge here I should insist on the
patient having a different atmosphere; or I would throw up the case.
Doctor Winchester already knows that I can only be again consulted on
this condition being fulfilled. But I trust that you will see your
way, as a good daughter to my mind should, to looking to your Father's
health and sanity rather than to any whim of his--whether supported or
not by a foregoing fear, or by any number of "penny dreadful"
mysteries. The day has hardly come yet, I am glad to say, when the
British Museum and St. Thomas's Hospital have exchanged their normal
functions. Good-day, Miss Trelawny. I earnestly hope that I may soon
see your Father restored. Remember, that should you fulfil the
elementary condition which I have laid down, I am at your service day
or night. Good-morning, Mr. Ross. I hope you will be able to report
to me soon, Doctor Winchester."

When he had gone we stood silent, till the rumble of his carriage
wheels died away. The first to speak was Doctor Winchester:

"I think it well to say that to my mind, speaking purely as a
physician, he is quite right. I feel as if I could have assaulted him
when he made it a condition of not giving up the case; but all the same
he is right as to treatment. He does not understand that there is
something odd about this special case; and he will not realise the knot
that we are all tied up in by Mr. Trelawny's instructions. Of
course--" He was interrupted by Miss Trelawny:

"Doctor Winchester, do you, too, wish to give up the case; or are you
willing to continue it under the conditions you know?"

"Give it up! Less now than ever. Miss Trelawny, I shall never give it
up, so long as life is left to him or any of us!" She said nothing,
but held out her hand, which he took warmly.

"Now," said she, "if Sir James Frere is a type of the cult of
Specialists, I want no more of them. To start with, he does not seem
to know any more than you do about my Father's condition; and if he
were a hundredth part as much interested in it as you are, he would not
stand on such punctilio. Of course, I am only too anxious about my
poor Father; and if I can see a way to meet either of Sir James Frere's
conditions, I shall do so. I shall ask Mr. Marvin to come here today,
and adv