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disgraceful disease. The situation in which he found him-
self was quite outside the range of his experience. He was
so taken aback that he did not know what else to do than
to go on at the hospital; he had a vague hope that some-
thing would turn up; he could not quite believe that what
was happening to him was true; and he remembered how
during his first term at school he had often thought his life
was a dream from which he would awake to find himself
once more at home. But very soon he foresaw that in a week
or so he would have no money at all. He must set about
trying to earn something at once. If he had been qualified,
even with a club-foot, he could have gone out to the Cape,
since the demand for medical men was now great. Except
for his deformity he might have enlisted in one of the yeo-
manry regiments which were constantly being sent out. He
went to the secretary of the Medical School and asked if he
could give him the coaching of some backward student;
but the secretary held out no hope of getting him anything
of the sort. Philip read the advertisement columns of the
medical papers, and he applied for the post of unqualified
assistant to a man who had a dispensary in the Fulham
Road. When he went to see him, he saw the doctor glance
at his club-foot; and on hearing that Philip was only in his
fourth year at the hospital he said at once that his experi-
ence was insufficient: Philip understood that this was only
an excuse; the man would not have an assistant who might
not be as active as he wanted. Philip turned his attention to
other means of earning money. He knew French and Ger-
man and thought there might be some chance of finding a

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