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Life and Gabriella

CHAPTER VIII
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"He asked for more whiskey, didn't he ?" "Yes; I'm goin' right straight to get it.

Oh, Gabriella, ain't a man a real solid comfort sometimes ?" Without replying to this ejaculation, Gabriella went after the whiskey, and when she came back with the bottle in her hand, she found the doctor on the landing outside the locked door.

He was a stranger to her, and she had scarcely begun her explanation when O'Hara called him into the room.
"The sooner you take a look at him the better." Everything was taken out of her hands--everything, even her explanation of George's presence in her apartment.
As there was nothing more for her to do, she went back to the sitting-room, where a fire burned brightly, and began to talk to Miss Polly.
"I don't know what I should have done if he hadn't been here," she said.
"Who?
Mr.O'Hara?
Well, it certainly was providential, honey, when you come to think of it." The door of Archibald's room opened and shut, and the doctor came down the hall to the telephone.

They heard him order medicines from a chemist near-by; and then, after a minute, he took up the receiver, and spoke to a nurse at the hospital.

At first he gave merely the ordinary directions, but at the end of the conversation he said sharply in answer to a question: "No, there's no need of a restraining sheet.


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