The captain took coach
immediately, and set out for the place, according to the direction
which Pipes had procured.
Cadwallader, having seen him at Bath, knew him again at first sight;
and, though reduced to a skeleton, believed himself in such a fair
way of doing well, that he would have accompanied him to the Fleet
immediately, had he not been restrained by his nurse, who was, by
his physician, invested with full authority to dispute and oppose
his will in everything that she should think prejudicial to his
health; for he was considered, by those who had the care of him,
as an old humourist, not a little distempered in his brain. He
inquired particularly about the sailors, who, he said, had deterred
him from carrying on his usual correspondence with Pickle, and been
the immediate cause of his indisposition, by terrifying him into
a fever. Understanding that the breach between Pickle and Hatchway
was happily cemented, and that he was no longer in any danger from
the lieutenant's resentment, he promised to be at the Fleet with
the first convenient opportunity; and, in the meantime, wrote an
answer to Peregrine's letter, importing, that he was obliged to
him for his offer, but had not the least occasion for his assistance.
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