I have just left the doctor sitting beside his bed.

If there is anything I can do for either of you I will do it with pleasure." McGowan shoved his hat back on his forehead as if to give himself more air.
"That kind of guff won't go with me no longer," he snarled, his face growing redder every instant.

"This ill business is played out.

He promised me three nights ago he'd make out a certificate next day--you heard him say it--and I waited for him all the morning and he never showed up.

And then he sneaks off to New York at daylight and stays away for two nights more, and then sneaks home again in the middle of the day when you don't expect him, and goes to bed and sends for the doctor.
How many kinds of a damned fool does he take me for?
That work's been finished three weeks yesterday; the money is all in the bank to pay for it just as soon as he signs the check, and he don't sign it, and ye can't get him to sign it.