Far from it; but we were willing to learn the ways of grace, and
that was something. Had he only stayed! Your wife mothered my
Elisabeth when she was homesick in a strange land. I have never
forgotten it. And you could pass civil service, Jim, on the story
I spoke of. I would be willing to let the rest go, if you will
promise to forget about that bottle of champagne. It was your
doings, anyhow, you know.
[Illustraion: James Tanner.]
Amos Ensign, I did not give you the credit you should have had for
our success in Mulberry Street in the early days, but I give it to
you now. You were loyal and good, and you have stayed a reporter,
a living denial of the charge that our profession is not as good
as the best Dr. Jane Elizabeth Robbins, you told me, when I was
hesitating over the first chapters of these reminiscences, to take
the short cut and put it all in, and I did, because you are as
wise as you are good. I have told it all, and now, manlike, I will
serve you as your sex has been served from the dawn of time: the
woman did it! yours be the blame.
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