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562 THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP<br />

"You remember Tufton Hunt ? Yes. You most justly<br />

chastised him. <strong>The</strong> wretch lately made his detested appearance<br />

in this city, associated with the lowest of the base, and endeavoured<br />

to resume his old practice of threats, cajoleries, and extortions !<br />

In a fatal hour the villain heard of the bill of which I have warned<br />

you. He purchased it from the gambler to whom it had been<br />

passed. As New York was speedily too hot to hold him (for the<br />

unhappy man has even left me to pay his hotel score) he has fled<br />

—and fled to Europe—taking with him that fatal bill, which he<br />

says he knows you will pay. Ah ! dear Philip, if that bill were<br />

but once out of the wretch's hands, what sleepless hours of agony<br />

should I be spared ! I pray you, I implore you, make every<br />

sacrifice to meet it ! You will not disown it ? No. As you have<br />

children of your own—as you love them—you would not willingly<br />

let them leave a dishonoured FATHER.<br />

" I have a share in a great medical discovery,* regarding which<br />

I have written to our friend, Mrs. Brandon, and which is sure to<br />

realise an immense profit, as introduced into England by a physician<br />

so well known—may I not say, professionally, respected as myself?<br />

<strong>The</strong> very first profits resulting from that discovery I promise, on<br />

my honour, to devote to you. <strong>The</strong>y will very soon far more than<br />

repay the loss which my imprudence has brought on my dear boy.<br />

Farewell ! Love to your wife and little ones.—G. B. F."<br />

* Ether was first employed, I believe, in America; and I hope the reader<br />

will excuse the substitution of Chloroform in this instance.—W. M. T.

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