Neither of them in those days of small things could have possibly by any flight of the imagination foreseen how their two lives, moving in parallel lines, would run deep their shining furrows through one of the greatest chapters of human history.

But I am anticipating, and that is a vice of which no good storyteller ought to be guilty.

So, then, let me incontinently return from this excursion and pursue the even tenor of my tale.
Garrison had stepped down from his elevated position as the publisher and editor of the _Free Press_.

He was without work, and, being penniless, it behooved him to find some means of support.

With the instinct of the bright New England boy, he determined to seek his fortunes in Boston.