House of Mystery

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Dr. Blake, the physician, on the other hand, caught a certain languor in her movements, a physical tenuity which, in a patient, he would have considered diag nostic So transparent was her skin that when her profile dipped forward across a bar of sunshine the light shone through the bridge of her nose - a little observa tion charming to Blake, the man, but a guide to Blake, the physician. She had the look, Dr. Blake told himself, which old-fashioned country nurses of the herb doctor school refer to as called. He knew that, in about one case out of three, that look does in fact amount to a real call - the outward expression of an obscure disease.