And now... here you are, one of the believers, ready to credit this legend. Have you heard of the heal-ing hands?... They are the hands of a woman... her name is Madame Duran, and she is in England... And recently the English writer "Godfrey Winn" brought out a book in which he examined the secret of the healing hands...

The story begins with an accident in which the girl Vivian Duran nearly lost her life when a "tractor" passed over her... The doctors' report affirmed that the bones of her chest were crushed in such a way that the most skilled physicians could not tell how to begin treating them... And they believed that if she lived, she would not stand on her feet for a year at least... Within five weeks, the girl left the hospital of her own accord, went back to her work, and then married. Her mother's hands had healed her...

The girl told the story and said: I knew that my mother's hands would heal me. She possesses a strange power. She has healed many before me.

Before the writer "Winn" began printing his book, he decided to visit this lady to verify her case, and he saw a crowd standing at the door awaiting the hour of healing...

The two hands would pass over the aching limbs, and wipe away the pain and the weariness. The woman was at once elderly and attractive... The writer sat watching her. He heard her talking quietly with the patient, her eyes closed; and she told him that in many people the trouble lies in the spinal column, and so their whole outlook on life is changed... The writer himself suffered from

back pain, so he decided to test the power of the hands, and gave himself up for an hour to the touch of the magic fingertips; then he