“She is worth it,” said the doctor so emphatically that Keller put his hand in his pocket and handed out the dollar. The poor woman did not see the half dollar that passed from the doctor's hand to the grocer's, but Mary saw and was glad.
The doctor laid the dollar in the trembling palm, helped the feeble woman into the wagon and they drove off.
Mary turned to her husband and said with a little break in her voice, “I'm going home, John. I want to get away from your kaleidoscope.”
Ting-a-ling-ling-ling. Ting-a-ling-ling-ling.
“And I must go for another peep into it. Good-bye. Come again.”
“Is this Dr. Blank?”
“Yes.”
“This is Jim Sampson, Doctor, out at Sampson's mill. My boy fell out of a tree a while ago and broke his leg, and I'm sort o' worried about it.”
“It don't have to stay broke, you know.”