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How
often
had
Clyde
and
his
sisters
and
younger
brother
seen
his
mother
or
father
,
or
both
,
in
conference
with
some
derelict
or
semi-repentant
soul
who
had
come
for
advice
or
aid
,
most
usually
for
aid
.
And
here
at
times
,
when
his
mother
's
and
father
's
financial
difficulties
were
greatest
,
they
were
to
be
found
thinking
,
or
as
Asa
Griffiths
was
wont
helplessly
to
say
at
times
,
"
praying
their
way
out
,
"
a
rather
ineffectual
way
,
as
Clyde
began
to
think
later
.
And
the
whole
neighborhood
was
so
dreary
and
run-down
that
he
hated
the
thought
of
living
in
it
,
let
alone
being
part
of
a
work
that
required
constant
appeals
for
aid
,
as
well
as
constant
prayer
and
thanksgiving
to
sustain
it
.
Mrs.
Elvira
Griffiths
before
she
had
married
Asa
had
been
nothing
but
an
ignorant
farm
girl
,
brought
up
without
much
thought
of
religion
of
any
kind
.
But
having
fallen
in
love
with
him
,
she
had
become
inoculated
with
the
virus
of
Evangelism
and
proselytizing
which
dominated
him
,
and
had
followed
him
gladly
and
enthusiastically
in
all
of
his
ventures
and
through
all
of
his
vagaries
.
Being
rather
flattered
by
the
knowledge
that
she
could
speak
and
sing
,
her
ability
to
sway
and
persuade
and
control
people
with
the
"
word
of
God
,
"
as
she
saw
it
,
she
had
become
more
or
less
pleased
with
herself
on
this
account
and
so
persuaded
to
continue
.
Occasionally
a
small
band
of
people
followed
the
preachers
to
their
mission
,
or
learning
of
its
existence
through
their
street
work
,
appeared
there
later
--
those
odd
and
mentally
disturbed
or
distrait
souls
who
are
to
be
found
in
every
place
.
And
it
had
been
Clyde
's
compulsory
duty
throughout
the
years
when
he
could
not
act
for
himself
to
be
in
attendance
at
these
various
meetings
.
And
always
he
had
been
more
irritated
than
favorably
influenced
by
the
types
of
men
and
women
who
came
here
--
mostly
men
--
down-and-out
laborers
,
loafers
,
drunkards
,
wastrels
,
the
botched
and
helpless
who
seemed
to
drift
in
,
because
they
had
no
other
place
to
go
.
And
they
were
always
testifying
as
to
how
God
or
Christ
or
Divine
Grace
had
rescued
them
from
this
or
that
predicament
--
never
how
they
had
rescued
any
one
else
.
And
always
his
father
and
mother
were
saying
"
Amen
"
and
"
Glory
to
God
,
"
and
singing
hymns
and
afterward
taking
up
a
collection
for
the
legitimate
expenses
of
the
hall
--
collections
which
,
as
he
surmised
,
were
little
enough
--
barely
enough
to
keep
the
various
missions
they
had
conducted
in
existence
.
The
one
thing
that
really
interested
him
in
connection
with
his
parents
was
the
existence
somewhere
in
the
east
--
in
a
small
city
called
Lycurgus
,
near
Utica
he
understood
--
of
an
uncle
,
a
brother
of
his
father
's
,
who
was
plainly
different
from
all
this
.
That
uncle
--
Samuel
Griffiths
by
name
--
was
rich
.
In
one
way
and
another
,
from
casual
remarks
dropped
by
his
parents
,
Clyde
had
heard
references
to
certain
things
this
particular
uncle
might
do
for
a
person
,
if
he
but
would
;
references
to
the
fact
that
he
was
a
shrewd
,
hard
business
man
;
that
he
had
a
great
house
and
a
large
factory
in
Lycurgus
for
the
manufacture
of
collars
and
shirts
,
which
employed
not
less
than
three
hundred
people
;
that
he
had
a
son
who
must
be
about
Clyde
's
age
,
and
several
daughters
,
two
at
least
,
all
of
whom
must
be
,
as
Clyde
imagined
,
living
in
luxury
in
Lycurgus
.
News
of
all
this
had
apparently
been
brought
west
in
some
way
by
people
who
knew
Asa
and
his
father
and
brother
.
As
Clyde
pictured
this
uncle
,
he
must
be
a
kind
of
Croesus
,
living
in
ease
and
luxury
there
in
the
east
,
while
here
in
the
west
--
Kansas
City
--
he
and
his
parents
and
his
brother
and
sisters
were
living
in
the
same
wretched
and
hum-drum
,
hand-to-mouth
state
that
had
always
characterized
their
lives
.
But
for
this
--
apart
from
anything
he
might
do
for
himself
,
as
he
early
began
to
see
--
there
was
no
remedy
.
For
at
fifteen
,
and
even
a
little
earlier
,
Clyde
began
to
understand
that
his
education
,
as
well
as
his
sisters
'
and
brother
's
,
had
been
sadly
neglected
.
And
it
would
be
rather
hard
for
him
to
overcome
this
handicap
,
seeing
that
other
boys
and
girls
with
more
money
and
better
homes
were
being
trained
for
special
kinds
of
work
.
How
was
one
to
get
a
start
under
such
circumstances
?
Already
when
,
at
the
age
of
thirteen
,
fourteen
and
fifteen
,
he
began
looking
in
the
papers
,
which
,
being
too
worldly
,
had
never
been
admitted
to
his
home
,
he
found
that
mostly
skilled
help
was
wanted
,
or
boys
to
learn
trades
in
which
at
the
moment
he
was
not
very
much
interested
.
For
true
to
the
standard
of
the
American
youth
,
or
the
general
American
attitude
toward
life
,
he
felt
himself
above
the
type
of
labor
which
was
purely
manual
.
What
!
Run
a
machine
,
lay
bricks
,
learn
to
be
a
carpenter
,
or
a
plasterer
,
or
plumber
,
when
boys
no
better
than
himself
were
clerks
and
druggists
'
assistants
and
bookkeepers
and
assistants
in
banks
and
real
estate
offices
and
such
!
Was
n't
it
menial
,
as
miserable
as
the
life
he
had
thus
far
been
leading
,
to
wear
old
clothes
and
get
up
so
early
in
the
morning
and
do
all
the
commonplace
things
such
people
had
to
do
?
