St. Jude's

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Twelve years ago, to while away the hour of a journey from Edinburgh to Glasgow, I bought The British Weekly and began to read, at first idly, then with interest, and at last with delight, a story entitled "A Lad O' Pairts." "Read that," I said, thrusting the paper into the hands of my Scotch professor friend in Glasgow. He stood up at the mantel, but had not gone far in his reading when, "Jean," he called to his wife in the next room, "come in here and listen to this;" and with eager, almost fervid enthusiam he began again, and read till, unawares, his voice failed, broke, and I discovered him with shamed face looking at us through tears. "I know him," he cried, when he had done. But loyalty forbade that he should tear aside the veil his friend had hung over his name.
A few minutes later, however, apropos of nothing in particular, he introduced the name of John Watson, of Sefton Park, and I knew that I had discovered the author of "A Lad O' Pairts."
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