"You look transfigured, my lad! Well, he's a great man, and he'll be a greater one yet.

He's for the people, and one day the people will be for him! I'll tie up your books--and if you can make a friend of Mr.Jefferson, you do it!" Lewis Rand came out into the sunlight with "old Coke" and Locke, Plutarch and Ossian, under his arm, and in his soul I know not what ardour of hero-worship, what surging resolve and aspiration.

Young Mocket, at his elbow, regarded him with something like awe.

"That was Mr.Jefferson," he said.

"He knows General Washington and Marquis Lafayette and Doctor Franklin.