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team. More than this, he easily became one 

 of the first scholars in his class, and finally 

 when he graduated he did so with high 

 honors. He is now a Lieutenant in the 

 United States Army. The proud mother 

 showed me a large album filled with clip- 

 pings from newspapers throughout the coun- 

 try commendatory of his work as a student 

 and as an athlete. 



The second son was educated as an engineer 

 and he has also been successful. He is fa- 

 mous too, and an other album contains a great 

 mass of clippings about his masterful work in 

 college. 



When Mrs. Pullen had finished the story of 

 her two elder sons, she commenced to talk of 

 her "baby boy." Then her voice trembled 

 and the big, strong, noble-hearted woman 

 broke down completely. By bits I learned 

 that just one month to the day before my inter- 

 view with her, which was on the eighteenth of 

 October, 1912, this young man, then twenty- 

 two years of age, had been found dead under 

 a wharf. A plank had been removed and he 

 had apparently fallen through. As he was of 

 exemplary habits, the heart-broken mother 

 believes that his fall was not accidental, but 

 that he was sand-bagged and thrown down 



