Why
prolong it? Write home, get my instructions changed,
and I will change my behaviour. Not otherwise."
"I am very fond of three hundred a year," said Norris,
"but I cannot pay the price required. I shall not have
the pleasure of seeing you again."
"You must please yourself," said the lawyer. "Fail to
be here next quarter-day, and the thing stops. But I
warn you, and I mean the warning in a friendly spirit.
Three months later you will be here begging, and I
shall have no choice but to show you in the street."
"I wish you a good-evening," said Norris.
"The same to you, Mr. Carthew," retorted the lawyer,
and rang for his clerk.
So it befell that Norris, during what remained to him
of arduous days in Sydney, saw not again the face of
his legal adviser; and he was already at sea, and land
was out of sight, when Hadden brought him a Sydney
paper, over which he had been dozing in the shadow of
the galley, and showed him an advertisement:
"Mr. Norris Carthew is earnestly entreated to call
without delay at the office of Mr.
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