"I  suppose  you've  got  it  all  cut  and  dried?"
Peter  said,  carelessly.
"I  just  believe  what  everybody  else  does."

"Well,  I  shall  believe  what  she  does.  It  will
be  all  right  after  this.  Eunice  will  tell  me."

"Dr.  Lavendar  would  tell  you."
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AROUND   OLD    CHESTER

' '  Oh,  well,  that's  his  business,  you  know.  With
all  respect  to  the  cloth,  I'd  rather  have  Eunice's
ideas.  However,  we  needn't  talk  about  it,  now.
Everything  is  all  right.  Paul,  what  do  you  think
of  building  a  little  summer-house  for  her  over
by  the  dam?"  He  was  glad  to  have  Paul  to  talk
to;  talking  kept  him  from  examining  too  closely
his  certainty  that  all  was  well.  "She's  absolutely
all  right,"  he  declared.  "Yes;  I'm  going  to  build
a  summer-house  for  her.  I  have  an  idea  of  a
Chinese  pagoda  Got  a  pencil?  Here,  I'll  draw
it  on  this  envelope.  Like  this,  you  see — "
"Good  idea,"  Paul  said.
"I  guess  I'll  take  her  to  Philadelphia  for  a  little
trip,"  Peter  ruminated;  "might  as  well  see  an
other  doctor,  too.  William's  all  right  in  ordi
nary  things,  like  that  attack  this  morning.  I
remember  William  when  we  were  both  put  into
breeches.  You  kind  of  don't  have  much  confi
dence  in  a  man  when  you  remember  him  that
way?  He's  too  much  like  yourself.  I  want  some
real  doctor  to  advise  her  about  food,  and  all
that  kind  of  thing.  I  think  she  ought  to  take
some  kind  of  tonic;  Willy  doesn't  give  enough
medicine.  He  does  as  well  as  he  knows  how,
but—"

"Oh—  Oh — "  A  voice  shrilled  down  from  the
open  window  above  them.
Then  another  voice:    "Run!    The  doctor-
There  were  flying  feet  on  the  stairs.      "Mr.
