A GRATEFUL PATIENT.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1044, 8 June 1883, Page 2

A GRATEFUL PATIENT.

TO THE EDITOR Sir, —I should have been thought hard-hearted if I had refused to give up my Christmas Day, and ride to Havyera to see a man whoso chief, repayment since has been a singularly persistent form ot love and kindness, and who now excuses his ardent affection by ing that Lwas mistaken about his which 1 hear now for the. first timej-afi3h which comes upon me with ' the shock of . a sweet surprise. . ~ ...’ ~ • He makes an, odd jnistake about the nature of . medical; 'consultations; da assuming that J over-ruled- hisiattending physician.: -The conclusions arrived"at by that gentleman and myself - were discussed in private, and we entirely concurred in the course wovjointly recommended. A consultation wo.uld be a farce if there were not this mutuil agreement. > ' But be has really libelled his own doctor, who should not have been a party to, and , out, the.poisoning. Though; I quite. jbelieve he s lores [ him also, andLl ;lrust has paid him. s lam glad to know from his own pen .that he is not a spiteful rogue and informer, and those who know -me can jadge, which., of us is likely to be druthful, sober,.honest and reliable. He-has already bad this explanation of what he terms :my •un-truthfulness—-that the mortgage " property I refused on March; 30tb, ■as supposed to be his, belonged really to f his s’oh ! and : namesake, and not to my very grateful patient.—Yours, W, F,. Keating. . , Patea, June sth. : f

P. S.—His letter addressed to you had actually appeared previously in the. Hawera paper.' He strives' to publish' his gratitude.