we make it a rule never to help casuals, and we can
do nothing."

Nor did they do anything, not even sign a letter
asking for Dan Cullen s admission to a hospital.
And it is not so easy to get into a hospital in Lon
don Town. At Hamstead, if he passed the doctors,

[{LONDON HOSPITAL, MILE END ROAD.}]

at least four months would elapse before he could
get in, there were so many on the books ahead of
him. The cobbler finally got him into the White-
chapel Infirmary, where he visited him frequently.
Here he found that Dan Cullen had succumbed to
the prevalent feeling, that, being hopeless, they were
hurrying him out of the way. A fair and logical

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