The sick man was lying where he had left him, but perfectly insensible.

On searching his pockets, a purse of money was found, but neither letter nor tablet to tell who he was.
Leonard offered the purse to the apothecary, but the latter declined it, and desired his assistant, who had brought a barrow with him, to place the sick man within it, and convey him to the pest-house.
"He will be better cared for there than if I were to take charge of him," he observed.

"As to the money, you can return it if he recovers.
If not, it of right belongs to you." Seeing that remonstrance would be useless, Leonard did not attempt it, and while the assistant wheeled away the sick man, he returned with the apothecary to his dwelling.

Thanking him for his kindness, he then hastened with Nizza Macascree to Great Knightrider-street.

He related to the doctor all that had occurred, and showed him the ring.