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The Light in the Clearing

CHAPTER XVI
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If either or both should die our souls will know where to find each other.

If you will solemnly promise, write these words and only these to my mother--Amour omnia vincit, but do not sign your name.
"SALLY." What a serious matter it seemed to me then! I remember that it gave Time a rather slow foot.

I wrote the words very neatly and plainly on a sheet of paper and mailed it to Mrs.Dunkelberg.I wondered if Sally would stand firm and longed to know the secrets of the future.

More than ever I was resolved to be the principal witness in some great matter, as my friend in Ashery Lane had put it.
I was eight months with Wright and Baldwin when I was offered a clerkship in the office of Judge Westbrook, at Cobleskill, in Schoharie County, at two hundred a year and my board.

I knew not then just how the offer had come, but knew that the Senator must have recommended me.


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