"Doc." Gordon
by
MARY E. WILKINS-FREEMAN
"The Debtor," "A Humble Romance,""The Heart's Highway,""Pembroke,"Etc.
Illustrated in Water-Colors by FRANK T. MERRILL
Copyright, 1906, by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
H.L. MOORE
SPECIAL EDITION,
For Sale exclusively by us in Rahway, N.J.
NEW YORK AND LONDON
THE AUTHORS AND NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION
1906
COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY
MARY E. WILKINS-FREEMAN.
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Composition and Electrotyping by
J.J. Little & Co.
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Manhattan Press, New York.
Doctor Gordon * * * had not even taken off his overcoat,whichwas white with snow.
CHAPTER I
It was very early in the morning, it wasscarcely dawn, when the young man startedupon a walk of twenty-five miles to reach Alton,where he was to be assistant to the onephysician in the place, Doctor Thomas Gor