She was cured, and Staines, who by this time wanted to see money, sent to Collett.
Collett did not answer.
Staines wrote warmly.
Collett dead silent.
Staines employed a solicitor.
Collett said he had recommended the patient, that was all.

He had never said he would pay her debts.

That was her husband's business.
Now her husband was the mate of a ship; would not be in England for eighteen months.
The woman, visited by lawyer's clerk, cried bitterly, and said she and her children had scarcely enough to eat.
Lawyer advised Staines to abandon the case, and pay him two pounds fifteen shillings expenses.

He did so.
"This is damnable," said he.

"I must get it out of Pettigrew; by-the-by, he has not been here this two days." He waited another day for Pettigrew, and then wrote to him.