[The Light in the Clearing by Irving Bacheller]@TWC D-Link bookThe Light in the Clearing CHAPTER XVI 9/51
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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