Dr.Slyder, who was the most fashionable practitioner in the City, spent his entire time moving to and fro in an almost noiseless motor earnestly advising people to keep quiet.

"You must keep very quiet for a little while," he would say with a sigh, as he sat beside a sick-bed.

As he drew on his gloves in the hall below he would shake his head very impressively and say, "You must keep him very quiet," and so pass out, quite soundlessly.

By this means Dr.Slyder often succeeded in keeping people quiet for weeks.

It was all the medicine that he knew.