I should be glad to leave my name upon something." In a stranger's hand, and upon another sheet of paper, Gilbert read the end of his friend's history.
"Sir,--I regret to inform you that your friend Mr.Saltram expired at eleven o'clock last night (Wednesday, May 2nd), after an illness of a fortnight's duration, throughout which I gave him my best attention as his medical adviser.

He will be buried in the Cypress-hill Cemetery, on Long Island, at his own request; and he has left sufficient funds for the necessary expenses, and the payment of his hotel bill, as well as my own small claim against him.

Any surplus which may be left I shall forward to you, when these payments have been made.

I enclose a detailed account of the case for your satisfaction, and have the honour to be, sir, "Yours very obediently, "SILAS WARREN, M.D.
"113 Sixteenth-street, New York, "May 3, 186--." This was all.
And Gilbert had to carry these tidings to Marian.

For a time he was almost paralyzed by the blow.