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Rh another wearied of her. For a while she stayed on at the Russells', but as she was unable to pay even the $1.50 a week rental which they charged her, she was served with eviction papers and dispossessed of her room within a month after Dr. Patterson's departure. Mr. Russell, her landlord, says that the matter of the rent was merely a pretext. He wished Mrs. Patterson to go because his wife, who had greatly admired her when she first came into the house, soon declared that she could not endure Mrs. Patterson's remaining there. His father, Rev. P. R. Russell, also strongly objected to Mrs. Patterson's presence.

The month of August, or a part of it, Mrs. Patterson spent with Mrs. Clark, in Summer Street, Lynn, and it was there that Dr. Cushing treated her for a severe cough. She next stayed with Mrs. Armenius Newhall, but soon afterward left the house, at Mrs. Newhall's request.

Mrs. James Wheeler of Swampscott, in her own town known as "Mother" Wheeler from her gentle qualities and her eagerness to help and comfort every one, then offered Mrs. Patterson a shelter.

At the Wheelers', as elsewhere, Mrs. Patterson talked continually of Quimby and declared that it was the ambition of her life to publish his notes on mental healing. Mrs. Julia Russell Walcott, a sister of Mrs. Patterson's former landlord, and an intimate friend of Mrs. Wheeler, says in her affidavit:

Mrs. Patterson was the means of creating discord in the Wheeler family. She was unkind in her language to and treatment of Mrs. James Wheeler, at the same time exacting extra personal service and attention to her daily wants.

One morning I sat in the parlour at the Wheeler house when Mrs.