The fee that the capitalist paid the specialist made his advice so valuable that the other followed it absolutely.  The next evening saw the patient in the home of the “occupation and exercise cure.”  He arrived just in time to sit down to dinner with a score of other patients, not one of whom showed any outward sign of illness, though all were taking the cure for some form of nervous trouble.  There were no cases of insanity among them, however, none being admitted to the institution under any circumstances.  The dinner was simple and abundant, and the conversation at the tables of a lively and cheerful nature.  As everybody went to bed by ten o’clock—­almost every one considerably before that hour, in fact—­the newcomer did likewise, he having secured a suite with a bath in the main building.  Somewhat to the surprise of the capitalist, who was accustomed to be made much of wherever he happened to be, no more attention was paid to him than to any other guest of the establishment, a condition of affairs that happened to please him.  He was told on retiring that breakfast would be served in the dining-room from 7:30 to 8:30 in the morning, but that, if he preferred to remain in his room, it would be brought to him there at nine o’clock.

The capitalist had a bad night, and was up to breakfast early.  After he had concluded that repast the medical superintendent showed him about the place, but did not encourage him to talk about his symptoms.  The grounds of the “occupation and exercise cure” comprised a farm of forty acres located among the hills of northern Westchester County in the Croton watershed, with large shade trees, lawns, flower gardens, and an inexhaustible supply of pure spring water from a well three hundred feet deep in solid rock.  The main building, situated on a knoll adjacent to a grove of evergreen trees, contained a great solarium, which was the favorite sitting-room of the patients, and the dining-room was also finished with two sides of glass, both apartments capable of being thrown open in warm weather, and having the advantage of all the sun there was in winter.  In this building were also the medical offices, with a clinical laboratory and hydro- and electro-therapeutic equipment, and accommodations for from twelve to fifteen guests.  Two bungalows under the trees of the apple orchard close at hand, one containing two separate suites with baths, and the other two living-rooms with hall and bath-room, were ideal places for quiet and repose.  Situated at the entrance to the grounds was a club-house, with a big sitting-room and an open fireplace; it also contained a solarium, billiard-room, bowling alleys, a squash court, a greenhouse for winter floriculture, and the arts and crafts shops, with seven living-rooms.  Every living-room in the main building, the club-house, and the bungalows was connected with the medical office by telephone, so that in case of need patients might immediately secure the services of a physician at any hour of the day or night.