Part 11 (1/2)
Describe hiain, and he followed every point on his fingers
”Well,” he said; ”I could have sworn I knew every man who ever fished at Blank, but this fellow----Oh, wait a minute! You say he is tall and bulky and had travelled Why, it must be old Carstairs And yet it can't be Carstairs was never ain
Then he said, ”You're sure it wasn't a clean-shaven bald lass?”
”Quite,” I said
”Because,” he went on, ”if he had been, it would have been old Peterson to the life”
”He wasn't bald or clean-shaven,” I said
”You're sure he said Blank?” he inquired after another interval of profound thought
”Absolutely,” I replied
”Tell ain what he was like Tell me exactly I know every one up there; I orous, bulky, very tall rey hair under a Panareat traveller and knew Persia; he had been in Parlia”
”I don't know him,” he said
II DR SULLIVAN
It had been decided that there never was such a resemblance as is to be traced between my homely features and those of a visitor to the same hotel the previous year--Dr Sullivan of Harley Street This had become an established fact, irrefutable like a proposition of Euclid, and one of my new friends, and a friend also of the Harley Street physician who had so satisfyingly and minutely anticipated my countenance, entle-rooht, ”the very ie of Dr Sullivan of Harley Street, as here last year?” And they would subject ree that I was Perhaps the nose--a little bigger, don't you think? or a shade of dissi, I suppose, only two, confound hi it all around, the likeness was extraordinary
This had been going on for some time, until I was accustomed, if not exactly inured, to it, and was really rather looking forward to the ti to London, I could tru uponhi of a set-back, whichhis conversation to other topics, give me relief I hope so
It happened like this We were as usual sitting in the s-room, he and I, when another local acquaintance entered--one who, I gathered, had been away for a feeeks and whom I had therefore not yet seen, and who (for this was the really i to my friend) consequently had not yet seen me
In course of time the inevitable occurred ”Don't you think,” e of Dr Sullivan of Harley Street, as here last summer?”
”What Dr Sullivan's that?” the new-comer inquired
”Dr Sullivan of Harley Street, as fishi+ng here last suentleman”
”The only Dr Sullivan I know,” replied the new-comer, ”is Dr Sullivan of Newcastle He's a very old man by now A very learned man too He has a wonderful private museum He----”
”No, no, the Dr Sullivan I mean was fro last summer and stayed in the hotel”
”Dr Sullivan of Newcastle is a very old er, ”and not a bit like hireat authority on the South Sea Islanders You should see his collection of Fiji war clubs”
”But that's not the Dr Sullivan I mean You must re after evening, just as we're doing now--Dr Sullivan of Harley Street, the specialist, a clean-shaven entleman here Every one has noticed the likeness”