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ment while he lived. It was started by a wor- 

 shipful group in Dr. Alexander's church, with 

 the ostensible purpose of finding a soft berth for 

 the Doctor's brother, and with a secret motive 

 which they tried to Hyde, to give scope to the 

 pushing activities of a young associate. The sub- 

 scription to the last few shares of the hundred 

 thousand dollar capital came hard, and I remem- 

 ber running my legs off to place them, the self- 

 same shares that were afterwards counted worth 

 ten thousand dollars each. 



