"Well," said McCann, maliciously, "the Doc'll prescribe for you anyway, Tim."
"'Tis no prescribin' I want, I tell you," Shevlin bellowed, "I seen it wit' me own eyes, I'm tellin' you! An' if
Dr. Lowell tells me I was drunk or crazy I'll tell him t'hell wit' him, like I told the lootenant. An' I'm tellin'
you, too, McCann."
I listened to this with growing amazement.
"Now, Tim, now, Tim," soothed McCann, "I believe you. You don't know how much I want to believe
you-or why, either."
He gave me a quick glance, and I gathered that whatever the reason he had brought the policeman to see
me, he had not spoken to him of Ricori.
"You see, Doc, when I told you about that doll getting up an' jumping out of the car you thought I was