In the Mahdi's Grasp - George Manville Fenn - Bog

Sam-or, as he liked to be called, "Mr Samuel," or "Mr Downes," holding as he did the important post of confidential and body-servant to Dr Robert Morris, a position which made it necessary for him to open the door to patients and usher them into the consulting-room, and upon particular occasions be called in to help with a visitor who had turned faint about nothing-"a poor plucked 'un," as he termed him- To begin again: