Excerpt from Tom Johnson

"No, Tom, you are wrong, there. As a general thing a man can do very well where he has been reared, and known from infancy, but there are a great many exceptions to this rule. When one settles down at home there are too many people that continue to 'ook upon him as a boy, and will never consider him a man until he has passed the meridian of life."

Thus spoke Ralph Sterling to his travelling companion.

The two young men were just returning from the University of Virginia, with their law diplomas in their pockets, and ever ready and eager to board the great ship that sails the sea of life.

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