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stinct that brought two such people into such a situation. The man was a trained lawyer, as after events made clear, one of the highest types of his profession. Even before he left the East his abilities were recognized, and he stood on equal terms with men who in the stirring events of the next ten years were to earn world-wide fame. He was a man of culture and refinement. At a time when college graduates were rarer than they are now, he was a graduate of Yale College, and always bore about him the evidence of his training. Greek was familiar to him, and Latin he could read to the end of his days almost as readily as he could English. Not only college bred, but a man of wide and choice reading, he made a strange seledion of a place for the exercise of his undoubted talents and capabilities, but, strange as was his choice of a