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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO MY FRIEND JOSEPH FRANCIS DALY A. K. G. R. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS. ------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOCTOR IZARD. ------- PART I. A MIDNIGHT VISITANT. ------- 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.