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.
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