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THE ARGOSY DECEMBER, Vol. LXXXIV 1916 No. i sat A AK ANY ° Ses y. Stephen ee Author of “ His Mad Move on p Movies,” “The Name of Martin Hoffman,” etc. =e COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE. CHAPTER I. THE PRACTISE THAT WAS NOT. id E’S dead!” said the boy on the roller-skates. “What?” cried Dr. James Bowen. Hardly one second ago, as he turned the corner into McDonough Street and paused to ask his way, he had been whist- ling undignified satisfaction with the world at large; but now, very briefly, his eyes grew round and thunderstruck, and his color faded a little—and the dramatic effect was not lost on the child. “Yep! ed, with some relish. James Bowen, M. D., laughed sudden- ly and drew a long breath. IA He’s dead, mister!” he repeat- ‘““ Not this Dr. Rimborne, kid,” he said as he moved along. “I tell you the Doc Rimborne that lived here on the block—” ‘Tt isn’t the same Dr. Rimborne, boy,” Dr. Bowen .persisted impatiently. “TI had a letter from this one day before yes- terday.”’ Queer, though, that two medical men of the same unusual name should have lived ia the same neighborhood! And Dr. Bowen, by the way, hoped that his good old Dr. Rimborne lived. on a block as prosperous as this one; because if he be- haved himself the neighborhood was like- ly to mean a good deal to Dr. Bowen these next eight or ten years. Big, broad houses of this type held : families of size and solid means, and— GoOmicdoo 2S) (E@)