“You will place the £50 which I have just paid you and the £450 you will receive by Mr. Herring—together £500, and the £200 you received on Saturday towards payment of my mother’s acceptance for £2,000, due on the 25th of October, making paid to this day the sum of £1,300.”
He paid me £50 at the time, and said I should receive the £450 through the post, by Mr. Herring. I afterwards received a cheque from him for that amount, which was paid through my bankers. On the 21st of November Palmer wrote to me:—
“Ever since I saw you I have been fully engaged with Cook, and not able to leave home. I am sorry to say, after all, he died this day. So you had better write to Saunders; but, mind you, I must have Polestar, if it can be so arranged; and should any one call upon you to know what money or moneys Cook ever had from you, don’t answer the question till I have seen you.”
“I will send you the £75 to-morrow, and as soon as I have been to Manchester you shall hear about other moneys. I sat up two full nights with Cook, and am very much tired out.”
On the 22nd of November I wrote to Palmer:
“I have your note and am greatly disappointed at the non-receipt of the money as promised, and at the vague assurances as to any money. I can understand ’tis true, that your being detained by the illness of your friend has been the cause of not sending up the larger amount, but the smaller sum you ought to have sent. If anything unpleasant occurs you must thank yourself.
“The death of Mr. Cook will now compel you to look about as to the payment of the bill for £500, on the 2nd of December.
“I have written Saunders, informing him of my claim, and requesting to know, by return, what claim he has for keep and training. I send down copy of bill of sale to Crubble, to see it enforced.”
On the 23rd of November I received a note from Palmer, saying that Messrs. Weatherby, of 6, Old Burlington-street, would forward a cheque for £75 in the morning. On the 24th I received another note, saying that he would come up either that day or Monday. I saw him on the 24th, when he signed the following paper:—