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by the roadside. I have always supposed that was my duty.”

I suppose he was a religious man, but he wasn't a Bible-thumping sort. After all, that's just basic Christian behavior. The parable of the Good Samaritan I supposed is known to every Christian as having been told by Our Lord for the purpose of illustrating to all of His followers that they ought to go and do like this man from Samaria, this despised fellow. He was trying to teach them how you should love your neighbors.

Glassford just referrad to that in an offhand manner, but I knew by that that he had the basic Christian spirit. That idea is the basis of all humanitarianism. Christian people don't think it's weak and silly to be kind to the broken up old fool by the wayside. Good Christian people are supposed to worry about others. At any rate, I got from him that he had this humanitarian spirit. From the way he had treated the bonus marchers in Washington I gathered that he was a man of humanitarian impulses, but not at all silly.

He was bluff, but not blustery, plain spoken, very quick, very competent, very alert, very straight and erect. He was a very military looking person, although he had been retired for a long time. But he had that quick alert look, as though he were going somewhere. He moved himself around