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Mr. Henry Carpenter:
World-traveller, philanthropist, naturopath, ardent Buddhist, and
student of the paranormal, Henry Carpenter hailed from New Jersey
in America. He was a great friend, and admirer, of Sardar Bahadur
Laden La, the leading Buddhist of Darjeeling, and took a kindly
interest in his children. Mrs. Mary P.L. Tenduf La, Mr. Laden La’s
daughter, the erstwhile owner of Windamere Hotel, would fondly recall
in later years, that Mr. Carpenter had wanted to take her to America
to develop her psychic powers. Mr. Carpenter left Darjeeling for
America in 1930, leaving his boots behind in Mrs. Tenduf La’s
keeping, until his return the following year. He never came back.
For the next seventy-four years, until her own death, Mrs. Tenduf
La’s maids, under her direction, cared for Mr. Carpenter’s
boots: aired in good weather, placed by the fire in wet, polished
to a high gloss in all seasons. Dear, Mr. Henry Carpenter. Gone.
Never forgotten!
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