And they're all waiting for me these ten minutes! I must run.
"I'll return inside five minutes," he called back as the door to the hall was closing upon him.--"Miss Judson, please tell those people in the reception-room to be patient." He did enter Doctor Hadley's office, although no sufferer from pyorrhea or appendicitis awaited him.

Instead, he used the telephone for two calls: one to the president of the board of health; the other to the chief of police.

Fortunately, he caught both at their offices, addressing them familiarly by their first names and talking to them most emphatically and confidentially.
Back in his own quarters, he was patently elated.
"I told him so," he assured Miss Judson, but embracing Daughtry in the happy confidence.

"Doctor Granville backed me up.

Straight pyorrhea, of course.