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I was willing to go out; but if he was wrong I didn't think there was any necessity that I should go. That was the point with the Governor that I could not understand You will see that very soon after Mr. Wakefield told me that Miss. Meserve, the assistant physician, could not got along with the treasurer, Mr. Wakefield found it necessary to resign. Yet with a lawyers facility of expression he says that he had been trying for a year to get the trustees to vote that the treasurer should not trade with that member of the board, which the treasurer was willing to do. Now this is the way it seems to me, and the common sense view of it: That if Mr. Lakin, the steward and treasurer of the hospital had been the honest, the honorable and the upright man that he is claimed, instead of forcing a member of the trustees to resign because the board would not pass an order that he should not trade with him, that he would have refused to trade with the trustee, and would not have done it until an order from the board had passed that he might trade with the trustee. That is the way