Doctor Izard

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DOCTOR IZARD

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WORKS BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN.

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THE LEAVENWORTH CASE. 4to, paper, 20 $1 00 cents; 16mo, paper, 50 cents; cloth

A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. 4to, paper, 20 $1 00 cents; 16mo, paper, 50 cents; cloth

THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES. 16mo, paper, 50 $1 00 cents; cloth

HAND AND RING. 4to, paper, 20 cents; $1 00 16mo, paper, illustrated, 50 cents; 16mo, cloth, illustrated

X. Y. Z. A DETECTIVE STORY. 16mo, paper 25 cents.

THE MILL MYSTERY. 16mo, paper, 50 cents; $1 00 cloth

7 TO 12 A DETECTIVE STORY. 16mo, paper 25 cents.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. 16mo, paper, 50 $1 00 cents; cloth

THE OLD STONE HOUSE, AND OTHER STORIES. $ 75 16mo, paper, 40 cents; cloth

CYNTHIA WAKEHAM’S MONEY. 16mo, paper, 50 $1 00 cents; cloth

MARKED “PERSONAL.” 16mo, paper, 50 $1 00 cents; cloth

MISS HURD: an Enigma. 16mo, paper, 50 $1 00 cents; cloth

THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE, AND THE CLOCK. $ 50 Oblong 32mo, cloth

DR. IZARD. 16mo, paper, 50 cents; cloth $1 00

THE DEFENCE OF THE BRIDE, AND OTHER $1 00 POEMS. 16mo, cloth

RISIFI’S DAUGHTER. A DRAMA. 16mo, cloth $1 00

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G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS, NEW YORK AND LONDON.

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[Illustration: “MERCIFUL HEAVENS, WAS THAT THE DOCTOR?”—SEE PAGE 228.]

DOCTOR IZARD

by

ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

(Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)

Author of “The Leavenworth Case,” “Marked ‘Personal,’” “The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock,” etc., etc.

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G. P. Putnam’S Sons New York London 27 West Twenty-Third Street 24 Bedford Street, Strand The Knickerbocker Press 1895

Copyright 1895 By Anna Katharine Rohlfs

Entered at Stationer’s Hall, London All Rights Reserved

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

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TO MY FRIEND JOSEPH FRANCIS DALY

A. K. G. R.

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CONTENTS.

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PAGE NO. THIRTEEN, WARD THIRTEEN 1 HADLEY’S CAVE 22 THE YOUNG HEIRESS 29 DR. IZARD 45 NOCTURNAL WANDERINGS 71 THE PORTRAIT 92 WHAT THE STROKE OF A BELL CAN DO 97 THE HOUSE ON THE HILL 114 ASK DR. IZARD 125 AN INCREDIBLE OCCURRENCE 136 FACE TO FACE 145 AT HOME 152 A TEST 157 GRACE 167 THE SMALL, SLIGHT MAN 186 THE LETTER 206 MIDNIGHT AT THE OLD IZARD PLACE 220 A DECISION 230 TO-MORROW 237 DR. IZARD’S LAST DAY IN HAMILTON 251

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DOCTOR IZARD.

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PART I.

A MIDNIGHT VISITANT.

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I.

NO. THIRTEEN, WARD THIRTEEN.

IT was after midnight. Quiet had settled over the hospital, and in Ward 13 there was no sound and scarcely a movement. The nurse, a strong and beautiful figure, had fallen into a reverie, and the two patients, which were all the ward contained, lay in a sleep so deep that it seemed to foreshadow the death which was hovering over them both.