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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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His
own
parents
and
those
of
his
wife
had
come
to
live
in
Edinburgh;
but
he
lost
them
all
within
ten
months
of
each
other.
Jenkin
had
showed
great
devotion
to
them
in
their
illnesses,
and
was
worn
out
with
grief
and
watching.
His
telpherage,
too,
had
given
him
considerable
anxiety
to
perfect;
and
his
mother's
illness,
which
affected
her
mind,
had
caused
himself
to
fear.
He
was
meditating
a
holiday
to
Italy
with
his
wife
in
order
to
recuperate,
and
had
a
trifling
operation
performed
on
his
foot,
which
resulted,
it
is
believed,
in
blood
poisoning.
There
seemed
to
be
no
danger,
and
his
wife
was
reading
aloud
to
him
as
he
lay
in
bed,
when
his
intellect
began
to
wander.
It
is
doubtful
whether
he
regained
his
senses
before
he
died,
on
June
12,
1885.
At
one
period
of
his
life
Jenkin
was
a
Freethinker,
holding,
as
Mr.
Stevenson
says,
all
dogmas
as
'mere
blind
struggles
to
express
the
inexpressible.'
Nevertheless,
as
time
went
on
he
came
back
to
a
belief
in
Christianity.
'The
longer
I
live,'
he
wrote,
'the
more
convinced
I
become
of
a
direct
care
by
God--which
is
reasonably
impossible--but
there
it
is.'
In
his
last
year
he
took
the
Communion.
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