This is one of the cases where an ounce of prevention is worth a good many pounds of cure.

Nothing more can be done for the boy than to follow the prescription I have given you.

I will be here again in the evening, unless he should become much worse, when you can send for me." Tom Gordon will never forget that day and night.

He refused to leave the bedside of his friend except for a few minutes.

The farmer and his wife were equally faithful, and did all they could for the sufferer, whose condition seemed to show a slight improvement toward the latter part of the afternoon.