Now that I had a home address, it was easier to find rooms for a surgery. I was very fortunate, for an elderly doctor had died, leaving his premises unoccupied and I saw the advertisement in the Caledonian Mercury.
Caledonian MercuryIt was a strange sequence of events, for I had flicked through the paper without noticing anything of interest, and laid it down on the floor beside my chair. I prepared to go for a walk and lifted my staff, but the thing seemed to have a life of its own. It slipped from my hand and rolled until the carved head rested on top of the newspaper. Only then did I notice the advertisement, as if the rounded head had indicated the place.
To Lease
A prime set of rooms in the historic Grassmarket. This establishment was the surgery of the late Doctor Walter Ogilvie a
