And the people of Garrison County responded, and State Senator Elijah Westlake Bemis did for Barclay in the legislature the things that Barclay would have preferred not to do for himself, and the Golden Belt Elevator Company throve and waxed fat.

And Lige Bemis, its attorney, put himself in the way of becoming a "general counsel," with his name on an opaque glass door.

For as Barclay rose in the world, he found the need of Bemis more and more pressing every year.

In politics the favours a man does for others are his capital, and Barclay's deposit grew large.

He was forever helping some one.