GENERAL LEE’S WAY

He talked to him a long time in a kindly soft spoken fatherly way. Said, "I see you are from Texas." and said he had known many Texas fellows, knew how they were and always liked them. Finally he dismissed him, and as by afterthought , perhaps rustling some papers said, I believe you are charged with some minor infraction of our rules. I trust you won’t let that happen again."

Rutherford said that he never would and whatever might have been his attitude toward other men, he always worshiped him after that, as of course many did.

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