"The Liberry"

by Ian Hay

"Adenoid Growths; Adenoid Growths; Adenoid Growths—"

"Of the lymphatic tissues—"

"Of the lymphatic tissues—"

I recollected that I had a spare stethoscope at home, and tiptoed down the steps.

III

I learned a good deal about the Baxter ménage during the next few weeks, from various sources.

First the Rector, whom I encountered one day paying a parochial call at Twenty-One, The Common. We walked home together.

"He's a strange old fellow," said my companion, "and most of his characteristics are derived from imitations, conscious or unconscious, of a stranger old fellow still."

"The late lamented?"