It seemed, somehow, to fit itself to the big, kindly man with the sternly rugged face and eyes of a saint.

"Oh, Doctor Dick, I'm so sorry--so very sorry!" Perhaps something in the dainty, well-groomed air of the woman beside him helped to accentuate the neglected appearance of the room, for he looked round in an irritated kind of way, as though all at once conscious of its deficiencies.
"And this--this, too," he muttered.

"There's no one at the helm.

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