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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 25 (search)
iends. One night, at one of the meetings in my study, when the usual devotional exercises and exposition of Scripture had just been concluded, and we were sitting for the conversation which usually succeeded, Cadet Polk said, with a manner of great emphasis: I would give anything to know who it was that placed that tract in my room. Why, said I, what would you do? I would not rest 'till by God's blessing he should know what I know, was his reply. Well, I answered, I will tell you; it was Parks. Why, he exclaimed, he is my intimate friend. Then he thought for awhile and said: He is officer-of-the-day to-morrow, between the sections going to recitation, and he will have a good deal of tedious time in the guard-room. I will put on the mantel-piece a copy of Gregory's Letters (he thought nobody could withstand that book); he will look at it just to kill time, and we will see. The other's smiled at his confidence, but he did it, and all resulted as he expected. His friend saw the