Dickens' Son

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. What follows is a tale of two cities: London, England, and Moline, Illinois. Each city has its own version of the tale. Only this last paragraph is the same: On a terrace in Moline’s Riverside Cemetery, high in the bluffs above Moline, in Lot No. 1,235, under an epitaph that reads “take ye heed, watch and pray, for ye know not when the time is,” lies Captain Francis Jeffrey Dickens, an officer in the Canadian Mounted Police and the third son of the English novelist, Charles Dickens.

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