So he and Everett made a chair by crossing their hands, each hand clasping one of the other boy's. Then they stooped down and Sally managed to sit upon their clasped hands. It was the first time that she had seen this device. "I'm afraid I shall fall off," she said. "Do you mind if I hold on to you?" Dick laughed quietly. "Put your arms round our necks and you won't fall. It's as easy as a cradle." Sally's color was quite restored and she was conscious of no pain as she made a triumphal progress along Box Elder Street with one arm about Dick's neck and the other about Everett's. The Carling twins followed closely, Horry absent-mindedly carrying his shoe in his hand, and the other boys came after. As Dick and Everett started to carry her upstairs, it was the happiest moment that Sally had ever known. CHAPTER III Cousin Patty was in Sally's room. Cousin Patty was not, as it chanced, fully dressed. "Well, Sally," she said, going towards the door, "I must go. It's almost time for the doctor." She paused an instant, then went on plaintively. "He hasn't been here, except professionally, for a long time--some years. But there was a time when he came often." Miss Hazen sighed involuntarily. The sigh was long and quivering and it interested Sally. "Oh, Cousin Patty," she said eagerly, "will you tell me about it--about that time, I mean?" Cousin Patty looked at Sally with the soft light of reminiscence in her eyes. "Oh, well," she replied, with affected carelessness and laughing lightly, "perhaps I will, if you are really interested to hear about it. Now I must go, but I'll be back in a few minutes." She went out and shut the door; and Sally heard a muffled shriek and Cousin Patty's door slammed. An instant later, her own door opened and Doctor Beatty appeared. He was smiling. "Nearly scared Patty into a fit," he said. "She ought to know my habits by this time." Miss Patty soon came in again, clothed but not quite in her right mind. Her color was still high and she seemed a little flustered. Doctor Beatty did not turn around. "Oh, there you are, Patty," he said. "I won't look, you know, until you give the word." "How absurd!" Miss Patty exclaimed. She meant to be very dignified, but she was very nearly smiling. "But that is to be expected. You always were absurd." The doctor's visit was a long one; and, when it was done, Miss Patty went to the door with him. "It has seemed quite like old times," she said softly. For a moment the doctor did not know what she was talking about. "What?" he asked blankly. "Oh, yes, it has, more or less, hasn't it? Good-bye, Patty. Keep your liver on the job. You're looking a little bit yellow." There were tears in Miss Patty's eyes when she went back to sit with Sally. "Doctor Beatty," she remarked after a short silence, "is not what he was in the old days. He seems to have coarsened." Sally did not know what reply to make, so she made none.