Dr. Morelle at Midnight

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Ernest Dudley. Dr. Morelle at Midnight

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‘Don’t know about you, Dr. Morelle, but I could use some coffee,’ Kirkland was saying. Dr. Morelle nodded and they went out of the operating-theatre and turned along the corridor in the direction of Sir Trevor Kirkland’s office. In the office the neurologist seemed a different man. Divested of the white boots, long green gown, white linen trousers, and seen in his normal tweeds, he looked almost homely. His once-sandy hair was sparse, his eyebrows, also sandy, were bushy. They hid keen eyes that sparkled with intelligence. The lines of his face were heavy and he was fresh-complexioned. He produced an old pipe from his pocket and began to fill it from a tobacco-tin on the mantel-piece.

A nurse brought coffee and he stirred his quickly, his pudgy fingers, a gardener’s fingers, handling the spoon as delicately as if it was an artery forceps. He waved his hand at the nurse to take away the robe and trousers, boots and masks he and Dr. Morelle had discarded.

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