He is very queer about some things.

He lives there all alone, for instance, with only a Chinaman for a servant.

He told me I was almost the only man he had asked under his roof for years.

He isn't a practising physician at all, you know.

He is a scientist; he makes experiments with lizards--and things." "Theron," the wife said, pausing lamp in hand on her way to the bedroom, "do you be careful, now! For all you know this doctor may be a loose man, or pretty near an infidel.