om was
pleasantly light as they entered. Jewel, the flush of sleep on her
cheeks, was looking expectantly toward the door. Dr. Ballard came in
first and she smiled in welcome, then Mr. Evringham appeared, heavy
roses nodding in all directions before him.

"Grandpa!" exclaimed the child. "Why, grandpa, did _you_ come?"

There was no mistaking the joy in her tone. Dr. Ballard paused in
surprise, while the stockbroker approached the bed.

"I brought you a few flowers, Jewel," he said, while she pressed his
disengaged hand against her cheek.

"They're the most lovely ones I ever saw," she returned with conviction.
"They make me happy just to look at them."

"Well, Jewel," said the doctor, "I hear you've been making up for
lost sleep in great shape." His eyes, as he spoke, were taking in with
concentrated interest the signs in her face. He came and sat beside the
bed, while Mr. Evringham fell back and Mrs. Forbes regarded the child
critically.

"Well, now, you're a good little patient," went on the doctor, as he
noted the clear eyes.

"Yes, Dr. Ballard, I feel just as nice as can be," she answered.

"No thickness in the voice. I fancy that sore throat is better." The
young doctor could not repress his smile of satisfaction. "I was certain
that was the right attenuation," he thought. "Now let us see."

He took out the little thermometer, and Jewel submitted to having it
slipped beneath her tongue.

As Dr. Ballard leaned back in his chair to wait, he looked up at Mr.
Evringham. "It is very gratifying," he said, "to find these conditions
at this hour of the day. I felt a little more uneasy this morning than I
confessed." He nodded in satisfactory thought. "I grant you medicine is
not an exact science, it is an art, an art. You can't prescribe by hard
and fast rules. You must take into consideration the personal equation."

Presently he leaned forward and removed the thermometer. His eyes smiled
as he read it, and he lifted it toward Mr. Evringham.

"I can't see it, boy."

"Well, there's nothing to see. She hasn't a particle of temperature.
Look here, little one," frowning at Jewel, "if everybody recovered as
quickly as you have, where would we doctors be?"

Turning again and addressing Mr. Evringham, he went on, "I'm
particularly interested in this result because that is a remedy over
which there has been some altercation. There's one man to whom I shall
be glad to relate this experience." The doctor leaned tow