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lamet a welcome guest, and then his short stay of a year in this country being finished, went away to the career that time had in store for him, and a marvelous career it was, for it was written in the book of fate that this obscure young Captain Grant should command the armies of the great Republic in the mightiest war of modern times, that he should sit as a ruler of the Nation and should finally sleep in that great tomb that looks down upon the Hudson,

It was fated that both host and guest should sleep at last at two Riversides far apart, one in his stately tomb by the Hudson, and the other under the trees and grass by the dark forest he loved so well, looking down upon the Willamette.

One rendered a great service to his country