‘Two years ago, I had met a girl there with whom I had a love affair, not one of the most reputable order. She was young, beautiful and devoted to me. I called her Ginger because of the colour of her hair and she called me Roslyn, after a Templar castle in Scotland.‘
‘We were separated for six months during my treatment in the London Hospital but we promised to meet again at The Ten Bells upon my discharge. As fate would have it, two days before I could keep my promise, she was brutally murdered by the Whitechapel fiend.‘
‘The sudden loss of Ginger by such a fiendish fate broke my heart and brought a renewed bout of delerium tremens necessitating another stay in the London Hospital, all the time haunted by rumours that she was still alive, having avoided the fiend’s knife, while someone else having died in her place, and that she went into hiding. I swore to keep my promise when I was able to be removed which was the night of December 10.‘
‘The Ten Bells is on the corner of Commercial and Fornier where Ginger had staked her pitch. No one, for a year since, had dared to take up her post until that night. The bells of St. Botolph’s “the Prostitute Church” struck midnight when I saw her distincltly standing under the lamp on the corner. Ginger had returned from the grave, younger and more beautiful than I remembered.
I rushed outside to meet my devoted with outstretched arms. “Ginger!“ I cried. “Mary Jane!“‘
