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Rh hear of his returning to his Western home and that he stayed on for several weeks with her while she endeavored to teach him Christian Science, — which he modestly acknowledged he “made a mess of.” But having heard considerable about Richard Kennedy and his misuse of the science of Mind, and feeling that Kennedy was harassing his mother with false reports of her teaching, Glover one day, without revealing his plans to his mother, visited Kennedy’s offices and, according to Glover’s alleged statement, threatened him with a revolver. According to the newspaper which quotes Mr. Glover he declared that he told Kennedy he knew of his “black art tricks” to ruin his mother and he meant to stop him.

“Mother seemed very much surprised when I told her what I had done,” George Glover is said to have stated in March, 1907, referring to the visit of 1879. “But she did not scold me and in a few days she consented to let me return home to the West and to my wife and little son.”

How clearly George Glover had shown to his mother after weeks of effort to educate him, to teach him Christian Science, the ungovernable, untameable spirit of the man of the plains, no one but himself had ever told, if indeed he did relate his experiences on his visit East as quoted. Richard Kennedy absolutely denied the occurrence. But whether George Glover did bully him or did not, and whether or not he recounted a fiction to his mother and later to the press, his nature is shown to have been alien to her nature, to have been