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giving him a mortgage on my
books. The ladies of the
Church here were slow in
paying my salary. Some bills
were contracted in the town, for
necessities, then sickness came
upon me; I was ordered to
Chicago by local physicians
who diagnosed my case "appendicitis."
I borrowed money to go on. I
was at Chicago Presb. Hospital
for about two weeks. The physician
there diagnosed my case "colitis".

While I was at the hospital
slanderous tongues were at
work here. They mouthed three
things, that I would not return,