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have it to line on & two people had been after it if it was ever empty. Low rent and central, it was a desirable tenement. he said he had lived there 16 years and had never skipped a time before in paying  us our rent. that Mr Holmes had always trusted him and he had made a lots of repairs without his consulting him. the water to the flush now is bothering, but through his mystery he may say how to find a way of fixing it. they certainly made out a good case. now what more can any one do about it. he said he had just got four dollars worth of groceries on trust, to live on + by finding a little job here + one three, he was trying his [?] best to pull through. Mary Frunch was in town yesterday calling on people she came here she was pretty well worked up over people in town who blamed her for taking Alice away from her home. she said she did what she thought was right + was not sorry she did so + if it were to do again she would do the same thing. Alice was not capable of managing her affairs + she was the one to do it for her. [[?]] she said then + there dropped her like a hot cake. I told her he was the one who made the trouble. the selfish [[?]] he got in with the Belchu croude + turned them all against Mary. she has always been glad I stood up for her. I told her how Wort talked to Beatrice Monk when she came there so full of it. I said go to him if you want his opinion of [[crossed out]] Mary had just come from Helen Metcalf & she blamed her for taking Alice away.  so did Mary Morton & Lilly Dutton.  I said it was your business & not theirs.  Mary said your mother was always just she was a Talbot to the back bone. Ma