The Archive · 1891

YE CAN ONLY SAY THAT HIS INITIALS ARE "J. D."

When " woman travels ten miles merely to ask a few questions we may assume that her curiosity is excited.

Leverstock Green, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, In the year 1883, a story went forth from which aroused great interest in all the region thereabouts. People came from various direc: tions to enquire into the matter; what was alleged to have had to do mostly with one man, If the story turned out to be true some good was likely to come of false, it would only put the community more on their guard against all sorts of wild rumours, Among the women who were bound to get at the foundation of it was one from St, Albans and a cook from Langley.

How strangely things work out in this guest world. Seven years have passed and facts are now to become generally public for the first time. It appears that, about. the first of January, 1883, an old resident of the above named was said, and commonly leved, to be in a dying condition, For five months an able and clever physician. had been attending him constantly; no medical man could have done more, His ailment was decided to be gout and rhenmatiam, which are now held to tically the same malady differently loca time ran 1e patient grew worse. The Well, this back in July, 1892. As doctor's ability and experience didn't seem to count," The sufferer's ankles, feet, and hands 'e all' know must have been a because that

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