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Doctor Therne

CHAPTER VII
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Before you answer it the money will be lodged, and you shall have my bond for it.

And now I must be going, for I am wasting your time and those patients of yours will be getting tired.

If you will come to supper to-night I'll have some of the leaders to meet you and we can talk things over.

Good-bye, we shall win the seat; so sure as my name is Stephen Strong we shall win on the A.V.
ticket." He went, and I saw those of my patients who had sat out the wait.

When they had gone, I considered the position, summing it up in my own mind.
The prospect was exhilarating, and yet I was depressed, for I had bound myself to the chariot wheels of a false doctrine.


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