But the other and greater one was that which we shall describe.

Mr.Lindsay, having perceived that his son Charles's health was gradually becoming worse, though his wound was healed, and on finding that the physician who attended him could neither do anything for his malady, nor even account for it, or pronounce a diagnosis upon its character, bethought him of the man who had so completely cured Alice Goodwin.

Accordingly, on Greatrakes's visit to Rathfillan, he waited upon him, and requested, as a personal favor, that he would come and see his dying son, for indeed Charles at that time was apparently not many days from death.

This distinguished and wealthy gentleman at once assented, and told Mr.
Lindsay that he "would visit his sen the next day.
"I may not cure him," said he, "because there are certain complaints which cannot be cured.

Such complaints I never attempt to cure; and even in others that are curable I sometimes fail.