Russ came along a little later.
"What happened?" asked Ruth, when he had knocked on the door of their hall and had been admitted.
"Not much," he replied. "They took Merley home, instead of to a hospital. He wouldn't go to an institution, he said."
"Did those other two men go with him?" asked Alice.
"Who, Fripp and Jagle? No, they wouldn't be allowed to ride on the ambulance. But they got a taxicab and went off in that. I heard Jagle say to the ambulance surgeon, that he was a doctor, and that he'd attend his friend when he got him home."
"Is Jagle a doctor?" asked Alice. "He didn't look like one."
"He's a sort of doctor," Russ replied. "I think he's a quack, myself. I wouldn't have him for a sick cat. But he calls himself a doctor and surgeon. So that's all that happened."
"It was enough, anyhow," remarked Ruth. "I don't like to see anybody hurt."
"I'm not so sure that fellow was hurt," said Russ, slowly.