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What’s the matter? Is somebody hurt?

[The, ''with his fedora hat and his little black satchel, appears. He is the perfect young rural medico, just out of medical school and full of learned importance''.]

I’ll get the ambulance.

[Following him in]: Is he bad, Doc?

[As he goes into the bedroom]: Both legs above the knee—compound fractures.

Why didn’t you take him to the hospital?

[As he enters]: The Ford went right off the bridge.

[As he enters]: Not two hundred yards from here, Joe.