with respect to its eventual termination. Time
passed on in a very wretched manner. Our friend the surgeon showing to
us both every mark of kindness and attention.

'It was owing to this excellent man that my innocence was eventually
established. Having been called to a town on the borders of Yorkshire to
a medical consultation, he chanced to be taking a glass of wine with the
landlord of the inn at which he stopped, when the waiter brought in a
note to be changed, saying, "That the Quaker gentleman who had been for
some days in the house, and was about to depart, had sent it to be
changed, in order that he might pay his bill." The landlord took the
note and looked at it. "A fifty-pound bill," said he; "I don't like
changing bills of that amount, lest they should prove bad ones; however,
as it comes from a Quaker gentleman, I suppose it is all right." The
mention of a fifty-pound note aroused the attention of my friend, and he
requested to be permitted to look at it; he had scarcely seen it, when he
was convinced that it was one of the same description as those which had
brought me into trouble, as it corresponded with them in two particular
features, which the agent of the bank had pointed out to him and others
as evidence of their spuriousness. My friend, without a moment's
hesitation, informed the landlord that the note was a bad one, expressing
at the time a great wish to see the Quaker gentleman who wanted to have
it changed. "That you can easily do," said the landlord, and forthwith
conducted him into the common room, where he saw a respectable-looking
man, dressed like a Quaker, and seemingly about sixty years of age.

'My friend, after a short apology, showed him the note which he held in
his hand, stating that he had no doubt it was a spurious one, and begged
to be informed where he had taken it, adding, that a particular friend of
his was at present in trouble, owing to his having taken similar notes
from a stranger at Horncastle; but that he hoped that he, the Quaker,
could give information, by means of which the guilty party, or parties,
could be arrested. At the mention of Horncastle, it appeared to my
friend that the Quaker gave a slight start. At the conclusion of this
speech, however, he answered, with great tranquillity, that he had
received it in the way of business at ---, naming one of the principal
towns in Yorkshire, from a very respectable person, whose name he was
perfectly willing to c