Finally, however, the old Squire, with Addison's help, slipped it in.

Halstead cried out, but the old Squire made him keep his eye closed; then the old gentleman bandaged it, and made him lie down.
But after all, I am unable to report definitely as to the efficacy of the eyestone, for shortly after five o'clock, when the stone had been in Halstead's eye a little more than an hour, Doctor Green came.

He had returned on the afternoon train from Portland, and learning that we had sent for him earlier in the day, hurried out to the farm.

When he examined Halstead's eye, he found the eyestone near the outer canthus, and near it the irritating bit of wheat beard.

He removed both together.
Whether or not the eyestone had started the piece of wheat beard moving toward the outer corner of the eye was doubtful; but Doctor Green said, laughingly, that we could give the good old panacea the benefit of the doubt.
It was not until we were at the supper table that evening--with Halstead sitting at his place, his eye still bandaged--that I found a chance to explain fully why I had been gone so long on my errand.
Theodora and grandmother actually shed tears over my account of poor little Ike.