The Doctor (1912)
When Dr. May Killham, a fascinating lady physician, takes rooms at the Empire Hotel, all the boys, including Howard Missimer, a gay bachelor, and his three pals, fall desperately in love with her. Missimer, at the first opportunity, shams sickness and makes the acquaintance of May, while she feeds him sugarcoated pills and charges him exorbitant fees. Missimer calls on May at her new office in the Long Acre Building, settles his bill and receives one of her new cards. This the boys see and each in turn plays sick and visits May for sympathy and pills. They pay dearly for the consultations, and are greatly relieved, in pocketbook. May now invites them all to the office on her birthday. The morning of the set day each admirer sends her a gift. That afternoon they all call at once and are having a gay time with May over a bottle of wine when a messenger boy delivers a telegram to May, she reads it and instantly declares she is called away and will leave the office in charge of the boys. After she has gone Missimer discovers the telegram on the floor, reads it aloud to the boys and they are horrified at hearing May has a husband and four children who are all ill of the smallpox. Consequently the boys pack up the things they sent her as gifts and, feeling badly stung, wend their weary way homeward.
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