Foreign News: Ex-Butterfly

Mirabai, better known as Miss Madeleine Slade, St. Gandhi's caretaker and most devoted disciple, who came out of prison fortnight ago, gave her first Press interview last week. Everyone knows that she, a tall, grave woman with a gentle voice and a delicate, jet-black mustache, was the daughter of Admiral Sir Edmond John Warre Slade; that she gave up a position in British society for which she does not seem particularly suited to seek spiritual peace caring for the Mahatma. Until last week she never told her own story:

"I was reared in luxury and ease. I had a splendid education,...

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