ence. Others have become warm partisans. But they have
nearly all been very poor people; and when you consider how many one and
sixpences are necessary in order to make up the fifteen pounds which
I must find every quarter for rent, taxes, gas and water, you will
understand that even with some success, I have still found it a hard
matter to keep anything in the portmanteau which serves me as larder.
However, my boy, two quarters are paid up, and I enter upon a third one
with my courage unabated. I have lost about a stone, but not my heart.

I have rather a vague recollection of when it was exactly that my last
was written. I fancy that it must have been a fortnight after my start,
immediately after my breach with Cullingworth. It's rather hard to know
where to begin when one has so many events to narrate, disconnected from
each other, and trivial in themselves, yet which have each loomed large
as I came upon them, though they look small enough now that they are so
far astern. As I have mentioned Cullingworth, I may as well say first
the little that is to be said about him. I answered his letter in the
way which I have, I think, already described. I hardly expected to hear
from him again; but my note had evidently stung him, and I had a
brusque message in which he said that if I wished him to believe in my
"bona-fides" (whatever he may have meant by that), I would return the
money which I had had during the time that I was with him at Bradfield.
To this I replied that the sum was about twelve pounds; that I still
retained the message in which he had guaranteed me three hundred pounds
if I came to Bradfield, that the balance in my favour was two hundred
and eighty-eight pounds; and that unless I had a cheque by return, I
should put the matter into the hands of my solicitor. This put a final
end to our correspondence.

There was one other incident, however. One day after I had been in
practice about two months, I observed a bearded commonplace-looking
person lounging about on the other side of the road. In the afternoon he
was again visible from my consulting-room window. When I saw him there
once more next morning, my suspicions were aroused, and they became
certainties when, a day or so afterwards, I came out of a patient's
house in a poor street, and saw the same fellow looking into a
greengrocer's shop upon the other side. I walked to the end of the
street, waited round the corner, and met him as he came hurrying after