Show JILTED BY GIRL 50 60 YEARS AGO STILL A HERMIT aged briton looked at al a woman in half a century great canfield england in a tier hermits rural fortress near thle this little essex town dies james mason seventy years old mho tor for 50 years has bid himself from tile the eyes of men when ile he was a youth of twenty hla his sweetheart married another man and mason lied fled into seclusion eclus lon to hide his inconsolable sorrow for 50 years he has not looked upon the face of woman the woman who jilted mason still lives and this year celebrated her golden wedding anniversary masons brother brot lier thomas two years younger than the recluse d devoted devote d himself to the care of 0 james a and rid throughout the five fire decades bass ha b been en his sole attendant al and companion refuses doctor only three times during this halt half century of exile lias has james JamesB mason lason been seen by men other than his brother and these were all within tile the last few months once the old man tortured by rheumatism and a threat of paralysis feared lie was wae nearing death he refused to be seen by a pa physician but I 1 for fifty years ho has not looked upon the face of woman summoned a clergyman for a secret conference again recently the llie hermit ap applied tilled for an old age pension and to 0 o obtain tills this dole lie submitted to an interview by a pension officer at first he declined to receive the olli official cial but ills his increasing infirmity and the growing in poverty ot of the aging pair forced aim to bi break oak liis ills rule A newspaper man who ulio sought to visit maon ma on on the llie fiftieth utti etli anniversary of ills self imprisonment failed to gain admittance but saw the face of the g graybeard gra beard through a window makes farm fortress when the youth made tits his vow to abandon human society he and his brother brot lier bought two acres of farm land and proceeded to transform it into a stronghold of complete privacy bristling hedges and a corrugated iron fence guard the borders would be intruders have encountered barbed wire bar barriers rlee and tunnels with trap doors to defeat their curiosity or their humanitarian mani impulses tile the hermit himself lives liveston in a small hut flanked by a jungle of thorny buches and thistles whistles es during ills his lifetime of isolation he has read only tile the bible and copies of a religious journal which the faithful brother has brought |