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The front door, opening directly into the living-room, with its long table, and its flashing fire lighting the eager faces round it -- nobody had thought of or bothered to make any other light in that room -- was flung open by a fur-gloved hand, and a large figure appeared in the doorway. A ruddy face looked in upon the scene. This face possessed a pair of keen gray eyes, a distinguished nose, and a determined mouth beneath a close-trimmed moustache with flecks of gray in it.
Brown sprang up. "Doctor Brainard! " he cried joyfully, and came forward with outstretched hand.