i think i have included this material here as some sort of memorial to stuart , and as some sort of warning be that as it may stuart came to the attention of the order when he was twenty-two years old our offices in london received from one of its many investigators in america a small newspaper article about stuart townsend , or 'the boy who had been somebody else for ten years ' stuart had been born in a small town in texas in the year 1895 his father was the local doctor , a deeply intellectual and widely respected man stuart 's mother was from a well-to-do family , and engaged in charity work of the fashionable sort for a lady of her position , having two nurses for her seven children , of which stuart was the firstborn they lived in a large white victorian house with a widow 's walk , on the town 's one and only fashionable street .