Two hard cases ; sketches from a physician's portfolio / by W.W. Godding.
- W. W. Godding
- Date:
- 1882
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Two hard cases ; sketches from a physician's portfolio / by W.W. Godding. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![story of telegrams to Lowell and elsewhere, and the anxious searching for traces. The 20th and 21st of April passed, with no tidings. It was clearly an elopement. On the evening of the 22d I received the follow- ing telegram: — Toronto, Ontario, Ajpril 22, 1875. Please telegraph how I can return. C. R. W. Was it a ruse to obtain money ? Was it another way of saying, How do you propose to get me out of the Queen's dominions ? Or was it the old con- trition that came in the reaction from excitement ? I was inclined to think the latter, but I answered, Report yourself to the United States Consul. The next day came this telegram : W is en- tirely destitute. What can you do ? signed, United States Consul. I replied. Send him with an offi- cer, at our expense, — at the same time writing the consul at length by mail. Awaiting response, the mail brought me this letter in pencil: — Kingston, C. W., April 21^, 1875. Wednesday evening. [He had originally written Toronto and erased it; and morning, also erased.] It is nine o'clock as I sit down in the depot to write you these lines. T am waiting for the next train to Toronto, Can. [He had written Niagara, N. Y., in-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21054514_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
