'If I had only a dozen hours to live, I must go,' he said." "He came to ask you for money for his journey, did he not ?" "He did.

I suppose to so close a friend as you are to him, there can be no breach of confidence in my admitting that.

He came to borrow any ready-money I might happen to have in the house.

Fortunately, I had a hundred and twenty pounds by me in hard cash." "And he took that ?--he wanted as much as that ?" asked Gilbert eagerly.
"Yes, he said he was likely to require as much as that." "Then he must have thought of going to America." "To America! travel to America in his weak state of health ?" cried Mrs.
Branston, aghast.
"Yes.

It seems like madness, does it not?
But there are circumstances under which a man may be excused for being almost mad.