In  after  years  Mr.  Allen's  indignation  was  hotly
aroused  over  sensational  stories  printed  concerning
the  hardships  and  privations  which  his  young  rela-
tive had  undergone  in  his  desperate  struggles  to  ob-
tain a  legal  education.  He  was  as  well  dressed  as
other  young  men,  for  his  uncle  had  a  pride  about
that,  and  paid  for  three  or  four  suits  of  clothes  as
they  were  needed.  During  the  first  part  of  his  re-
lations with  Rogers,  Bowen  &  Rogers  he  continued
to  board  with  his  uncle,  and  the  only  drawback  was
the  walk  of  two  miles,  going  and  coming,  since  part
of  the  way  was  over  a  badly  made  and  badly  kept
country  road,  which  might  at  times  be  a  slough  of
mud  and  at  other  times  heavily  drifted  with  snow.
The  walk  was  duly  taken,  however,  storm  or  shine,
and  it  was  noted  that  no  other  person  about  the
office  was  more  regularly  punctual  than  was  the  new
clerk  and  student.  There  was  but  one  other  law
student  and  a  copyist,  and  these  managed  to  give
Grover  a  remarkable  experience  at  the  very  outset  of
his  legal  career.     The  head  of  the   firm,  the  senior


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Mr.  Rogers,  was  a  man  of  few  words,  except,  per-
haps, before  a  jury  or  in  engineering  a  point  of  law.
