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The Critic There is no doubt that Mary MacLane, whose "story" was recently published by Messrs. H.S. Stone & Co., is a real person. I have made inquiries in Butte, Mont., where Miss MacLane lives, and find that she is all that she paints herself. My correspondent writes: "She is nineteen years old and is as peculiar as her books. Two years ago she boasted that she was a liar and a thief. She seems to delight in saying such things. She was graduated from our High School a year ago. A few days ago Mrs Johnson (a cousin of Senator Clark) invited several of the society women of Butte to meet her. She insulted us one and all. I thought it was for notoriety and on account of her book until her teachers and her schoolmates told me of her peculiarities (to put it mildly) and her talk in school. My own opinion is that she is a subject for the reform school or the insane asylum, and the less notoriety given her book the better." - "The Lounger"
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