"In the first place, you know Dr.Carter, do you not ?" "Yes." "He is a reputable physician, isn't he ?" "I believe Dr.Carter to be a very honorable man." "Do you know Dr.Davidson ?" "I understand that he is one of the new pastors in town," admitted the lawyer.
"You imagine he would make a creditable witness, don't you ?" "Jurors generally accept the testimony of a clergyman at its face value," replied Attorney Griffin.
"Down in one of the tenements of Gridley," pursued Prescott, rising and leaning one elbow upon the corner of the top of the lawyer's roll-top desk, "is a young man named Peters.

He is a mill hand who has been away from his work for weeks on account of illness.
Dr.Carter has been attending him, probably without charging much if any fee.

Last night Peters had a small boy rush out and telephone in haste for Dr.Carter.

As it happened, the physician was at his office, and answered quickly.

After Dr.Carter had been in Peters's room, perhaps a minute, the physician hurried out into the street, stopping the first man whom he met.