"Finding that he was going to the neighbourhood of Norcaster, where there is a most excellent school of medicine, I advised him to get the best specialist he could from there, and to put himself under his treatment.

But my impression was that he had already reached a very, very serious stage." "You think he was then likely to die suddenly ?" suggested Gilling.
"It was quite possible.

I should not have been surprised to hear of his death," answered Dr.Tretheway.

"He was, in short, very ill indeed." "You never heard anything ?" inquired Gilling.
"Nothing at all--though I often wondered.

Of course," said the doctor with a smile, "they were only chance visitors--I often have trans-atlantic passengers drop in--and they forget that a physician would sometimes like to know how a case submitted to him in that way has turned out.