“Read Document 23, A,” nodded Mr. Keen.

And Miss Smith read: 

ROSALIND HOLLIS, M.D.

Age . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Height . . . . . . 5 feet 9 inches

Weight . . . . . . . . 160 pounds

Thick, bright, ruddy
Hair . . . . . . golden, and inclined
to curl.

Teeth . . . . . . . . .  Perfect

Eyes . . . . . . .  Dark violet-blue

Mouth . . . . . . . . .  Perfect

Color . . . .  Fair.  An ivory-tinted
                     blonde.

Figure . . . . . . . . .  Perfect

Health . . . . . . . . .  Perfect

Temper . . . . . . . . .  Feminine

Austere, with a
Habits . . . . resolutely suppressed
capacity for romance.

Business . . . . . . . . .  None

Profession . . . . . . .  Physician

Mania . . . . . . . .  A Mission

“NOTE.—­Dr. Rosalind Hollis was presented to society in her eighteenth year.  At the end of her second season she withdrew from society with the determination to devote her entire life to charity.  Settlement work and the study of medicine have occupied her constantly.  Recently admitted to practice, she spends her mornings in visiting the poor, whom she treats free of all charge; her afternoons and evenings are devoted to what she expects is to be her specialty:  the study of the rare malady known as Lamour’s Disease. (See note on second page.)

“It is understood that Dr. Hollis has abjured the society of all men other than her patients and such of her professional confreres as she is obliged to consult or work with.  Her theory is that of the beehive:  drones for mates, workers for work.  She adds, very decidedly, that she belongs to the latter division, and means to remain there permanently.

“NOTE (Mr. Keen’s O.B., pp. 916-18).—­Her eccentricity is probably the result of a fine, wholesome, highly strung young girl taking life and herself too seriously.  The remedy will be the Right Man.”

“Exactly,” nodded Mr. Keen, joining the tips of his thin fingers and partly closing his eyes.  “Now, Miss Smith, the disease which Dr. Hollis intends to make her specialty—­have you any notes on that?”

“Here they are,” said Miss Smith; and she read:  “Lamour’s Disease; the rarest of all known diseases; first discovered and described by Ero S. Lamour, M.D., M.S., F.B.A., M.F.H., in 1861.  Only a single case has ever been observed.  This case is fully described in Dr. Lamour’s superb and monumental work in sixteen volumes.  Briefly, the disease appears without any known cause, and is ultimately supposed to result fatally.  The first symptom is the appearance of a faintly bluish circle under the eyes, as though the patient was accustomed