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This telling of curious story is not yet complete. A
few years later Wm. H. Ireland
confessed that the whole mass of
these varied documents were his forgeries
done before he was 20 years of
age, and he now published his disgrace
to exonerate and show how
completely he had imposed upon
the man who adopted &
educated him.

Payne's Novel ("The Talk of
the Town") very properly weaves in
a love story, giving as the
motive of the imposition, the
adopted son's endeavour, by gifts
the old gentleman would value,
to win over his sanction to
a marriage with his daughter.

A copy of "The Confession"
is one of a series of books -
not being in the Memorial

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