Charles Boardman Hawes
The Great Quest
eBook
(Prabhat Prakashan Aug. 25, 2018)
One morning early in the summer of 1826; I brushed the sweat from my forehead and the flour from my clothes; unrolled my shirt-sleeves to my wrists; donned my coat; and; with never a suspicion that that day was to be unlike any other; calmly walked out into the slanting sunshine. Rain had fallen in the night; and the air was still fresh and cool. Although the clock had but just struck six; I had been at work an hour; and now that my uncle; Seth Upham; had come down to take charge of the store; I was glad that some business discussed the evening before gave me an excuse to go on an errand to the other end of the village.