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The following morning I looked up Doctor Castleton ; and he , ever courteous and obliging , did more than consent to permit me to drive out to the home of his patient , Peters . He proposed that I wait a day , as he knew that Peters would within that time , and might any hour , send for him ; and as soon as he was summoned he would notify me , and together we would drive out to the old sailor 's residence -- which , the doctor said , was a small , two-roomed log structure , where the old man dwelt entirely alone . The FOURTH Chapter The summons from Doctor Castleton to accompany him came sooner than he had led me to expect ; and at a little past noon of the same day on which he had made his promise to take me with him to see Dirk Peters , I received a message , saying that if agreeable to me he would at two o'clock be in front of my hotel , prepared to start for the home of the old sailor . At a minute or two before the time fixed , I was standing at the main entrance to the Loomis House , and at precisely two o'clock Doctor Castleton drove up in a two-horse , four-wheeled , top-buggy . He made room for me on his left , and off we started . We drove in a westerly direction for a full mile along the main street before leaving the town behind us . Then we struck a level turf road ; and away trotted the superb team of rather small , wiry , black horses .