The Hermit's Gap single work   short story  
Is part of The Detective's Album Mary Fortune , Hugh Dalmore , Rex Grayson , A. C. Eiseman , M. Joseph Lynch , 1865 series - publisher
Issue Details: First known date: 1879... 1879 The Hermit's Gap
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A recluse who survives by selling animal skins ventures onto a nearby farm seeking flour and there recognises the wife he abandoned - now a drunkard - and his son. She strikes her son and the old man offers him shelter, revealing his identity later. The woman is murdered and the son blamed but he hermit's testimony helps save him ... Gory. (PB)

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