My third and last duty toward my neighbor,--the well neighbor who possesses the sick one,--is to narrate every somewhat similar case on record, with all its circumstances and the ultimate career of the sufferer; to prescribe remedies as infallible as the Pope; to disapprove wholly, and on the best grounds, of those in actual use; to offer every assistance in and out of my power; and to say at leaving that I _hope_ it may all turn out well, but that _I_ should have called in the other doctor.

Joppa had learned by heart its duty toward its neighbor from its earliest, stammering infancy, and it adhered strictly to the path therein marked out.

It inquired after Phebe diligently; it thoroughly mastered all possible intricacies of her case; it made her gifts digestible and indigestible; and it said that, by all odds, it was Dr.Harrison who should have attended her from the first.

Dr.Dennis took very good care of her, nevertheless, and it was not long before he pronounced that all she needed was quiet and rest to complete the cure.
"We shall have her out of bed in a few days now, Mrs.Lane; in a week or so perhaps," he said, as he passed out at the front door where Mrs.Lane was standing talking with Mrs.Hardcastle.

"She is doing very well, as well as I could wish.