Village, and made that pleasant place my headquarters.

The weeks wore on, and if Mrs. Blaisdell was a hogshead, as the
Meredith landlord said, when I first saw her, she soon became a
barrel under my treatment, and in four months she was entirely
cured, and was as sound as any woman in the State. I had as much
other business too as I could attend to, and was very busy and happy
all the time.

In May I went to Exeter, alternating between there and Portsmouth,
and finding enough to do till the end of July. While I was in
Portsmouth on one of my last visits to that place, I received a call
from a sea-captain by the name of Brown, who told me that he had
heard of my success in dropsical cases, and that I must go to
Newark, N. J., and see his daughter. "Pay," he said, "was no object;
I must go." I told him that I had early finished my business in that
vicinity, and that when I went to New York, as I proposed to do
shortly, I would go over to Newark and see his daughter. A few days
afterward, when I had settled my business and collected my bills in
Portsmouth and Exeter, I went to New York, and from there to Newark.






CHAPTER VII.

WEDDING A WIDOW, AND THE CONSEQUENCES.