CHAPTER IX.
LOVE AND POLITICS.
Acting on his father's advice Bernard arrived in Norfolk in the course of a few days.

He realized that he was now a politician and decided to make a diligent study of the art of pleasing the populace and to sacrifice everything to the goddess of fame.

Knowing that whom the people loved they honored, he decided to win their love at all hazards.

He decided to become the obedient servant of the people that he might thus make all the people his servants.
He took up hie abode at Hotel Douglass, a colored hotel at which the colored leaders would often congregate.

Bernard mingled with these men freely and soon had the name among them of being a jovial good fellow.
While at Harvard, Bernard had studied law simultaneously with his other studies and graduated from both the law and classical departments the same year.
Near the city court house, in a row of somewhat dilapidated old buildings, he rented a law office.