'I would rather go on to Honfleur by road at once, than do so.' "'There is no fear of that; the maire is a friend and patient of mine.

And if, as may be the case, the landlord mentions the arrival of a stranger, and his coming to me; I shall simply tell the maire that, your arm being badly broken, I kept you for the night, and then sent you on by boat; and that as for papers, not being a gendarme, I never thought of asking you for them.' "The next morning he dressed my arm again, and then himself took me down to the boat, and handed me over to its skipper.

He absolutely refused any payment for his services; but I insisted on his receiving a couple of hundred francs, in assignats, for the use of his poorer patients.
"The skipper carried out his instructions to the letter.

We got to Honfleur after dark, on the day after starting, and he went with me to the cottage of a widow of his acquaintance.
"He said to her, 'Mother, I want you to take care of this young sailor.

He has broken his arm, and wants nursing.