Old Dr. Blair came forward briskly . `` Carry her in , '' he said , `` and do n't all of you come crowding in , either . She wants quiet and rest for a spell . '' Most of the people obediently returned to the church , their sudden loosened tongues clattering in voluble excitement . A few women assisted Judith to carry Salome in and lay her on the kitchen lounge , followed by the doctor and the dripping Lionel Hezekiah , whom the minister had lifted out of the hogshead and to whom nobody now paid the slightest attention . Salome faltered out her story , and her hearers listened with varying emotions . `` It 's a miracle , '' said Sam Lawson in an awed voice . Dr. Blair shrugged his shoulders . `` There is no miracle about it , '' he said bluntly . `` It 's all perfectly natural . The disease in the hip has evidently been quite well for a long time ; Nature does sometimes work cures like that when she is let alone . The trouble was that the muscles were paralyzed by long disuse . That paralysis was overcome by the force of a strong and instinctive effort . Salome , get up and walk across the kitchen . '' Salome obeyed . She walked across the kitchen and back , slowly , stiffly , falteringly , now that the stimulus of frantic fear was spent ; but still she walked . The doctor nodded his satisfaction . `` Keep that up every day . Walk as much as you can without tiring yourself , and you 'll soon be as spry as ever . No more need of crutches for you , but there 's no miracle in the case . ''
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