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In the early dusk of the afternoon, about four o'clock, there was a banging on the shop-door, and the short bark of a dog, who evidently considered himself entitled to help in whatever affair was afoot. Elsie was upstairs. During the morning several persons, incapable of understanding that when a shop is shut it is shut, had banged on the door, and at last Elsie, by means of two tin tacks, had affixed to the door -- without a word to her master -- a dirty old card on which she had scrawled in large pencilled letters the succinct announcement, "Closed. " This had put an end to banging. But now more banging!
"The doctor! " Elsie exclaimed, and ran down.