Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I CHAPTER III THE DOCTORS CALL UPON DOROTHY Promptly at four o'clock Doctor Gordon, seated in his automobile, arrived at the hospital. Five minutes later Doctor Ross took a seat beside him, and the car, joining the dense traffic of countless automobiles, cabs, trucks and numerous other vehicles of every kind and description, began to slowly wend its way westward. It would be difficult for an observer watching the two men as they sat conversing to determine from their appearance the difference, if any, in their ages. Douglas Gordon possessed the face of the optimist. The merry blue eyes, set well back under heavy dark eyebrows and o'er-topped by a forehead of extraordinary height and breadth, looked out brightly and hopefully upon everybody and everything. The mouth, above which was a large and decidedly prominent nose, was exceedingly pleasing in its expression, and disclosed, when smiling, an excellent set of strong, white teeth. The chin was inclined to be square, and was really the only severe looking thing about the face. The skinhad the healthy color which is attributed to those who spend the greater part of their time out in the open air, and his great head, supported by a rather substantial neck, was thickly covered with reddish-brown hair. In height and weight he was slightly above the average, and his years were forty, some years older than his brother-in-law, Doctor Ross, but there were few who could be made to believe it. In appearance Robert Ross was decidedly unlike his brother-in-law, and he viewed the world, its doings and its people from a somewhat different standpoint. He was tall and slender and his shoulders, unlike Doctor Gordon's, stooped slightly forward. His face, with its high cheek bones, was thin and long, and me pale, dark skin which cover...