The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-08-16
CHAPTER XIV.
Use My Own Compass at Fork In
the Road.

restless HldUuOUus IL was Lie lH0lAuA
of the young those days.
Mr.. Wright came up for days fish
ing in July. My uncle and took him
up the river.
While we ate our luncheon he de-
scribed Jackson and spoke of the IA
nous cheese which he had kept on q
table In the vestibule of the White
House for his callers. He described
his fellow senators-Webster, Clay,
Rives, Calhoun and Benton. ! remem-
Der that Webster was, in his view, the
least of them, although at his best the
greatest orator. We had delightful
day, and when drove back to the VII
lage with him that night he told me
that / could go into the Office Of Wright
& Baldwin after harvesting.
sit will do for start" he said. ga
little later I shall try to find better
place for you"
My life went on with little in 1t
worth recording until the letter came.
I speak Of it as "the letter." because
Of it's effect upon my career. 1t was
from Sally, and it said:
"Dear Bart: It's all over for long
time, perhaps forever-that will de-
pend on you. I shall be true to you,
If you really love me, even If have to
wait many, many years. Mother and
father saw and read your letter. They
say we are too young to be thinking
about love and that we have got to
stop 1t. How can stop it? guess I
would have to stop living. But we
shall have to depend upon our mem
cries now. I hope that yours is as
good as mine. Father says no more
letters without his permission, and he
stamped his foot so hard that think
he must have made dent in the floor
Talk about slavery-what do you think
Of that2 Mother says that we must
wait-that it would make father 8
great deal Of trouble if it were knoyn
that allowed you to write. l guess
the soul Of old Grimshaw is still fol.
4 lowing you. Well, we must stretch out
that lovely day as far es. we can. %0s
the third of June, 1914, we shall both
be twenty-one-andI suppose that we
can do as we please then. The day
is long way off, but I will agree to
meet you that day at eleven in the
morning under the old pine on the
river where met you that day and
you told me that you loved me. II
either or both should die our souls will
know where to find each other. II
you will solemnly promise, write these
words and only these to my mother
Amour omnia vincit, but do not sigr
your name.
"SALLY." 4
What serious matter 1t seemed tt
me then remember that it gavs
Time a rather slow foot. wrote thu
words very neatly and plainly on {
sheet of paper and mailed it to Mrs
Dunkelberg. wondered If Sally woulC
: stand firm, and longed to know TIL
{ secrets of the future. More than eve
I was resolved to be the principal wit
ness in some great matter, as N.
friend in Ashery lane had put it. y
1 was eight months with Wright 4
Baldwin when l was offered a clerk
ship in the Office of Judge Westbrook
at Cobleskill, in Schoharie county, a
two hundred year and my board.
knew not then just how the offer ha'
come, but knew that the senator mus
have recommended me. I know nov
that he wanted reliable witness
the rent troubles which were CROWN
acute In Schoharie, Delaware and O.
lumbia counties.
1t was trial to go so far fror
home, as Aunt Deel put 1t, bat both M
aunt and uncle agreed that 1t was 10
the best"
How it wrung my heart, when M
Purvis and got into the stage at Car
: ton, to see my aunt and uncle standin
by the front wheel looking up at rns
How old and lonely and forlorn the
looked! Aunt Deel had her purse ]
her hand. remember how she took
y dollar out of i'll suppose it was th
only dollar she had-and looked at
A moment and then handed 1t up t
me.
"You better take it," she said. TT
'fraid you won't have enough" N
: How her hand and lips trembledi
have always kept that dollar.
:, Icouldn't see them as we drove ava.
The judge received me kindly an
gove Purvis a Job in his garden.
l. was able to take his dictation in sount
e, hand and spent most of my time !
IS taking down contracts and correspond
E. ence and drafting them into propt
ct form, which had the knack of doin
rather neatly. I was impressed by Il
d immensely of certain towns in tt
It. neighborhood, and there were som
a temptations in my way. Many peopl
1T and especially the prominent men, /.
N dulged in ardent spirits.
D. We had near rs there a little sectic
re of the old world which was trying, in
In half-hearted fashion, to maintain |
le self In the midst Of a democracy.
1t was the immortal life of the patroor
"a relic Of ancient feudalisn whic
had its beginning in 1929, when Il
II West Indies company issued its cha
70 tor of privileges and exemptions. Th'