Old Ebenezer

Sam Lyman carries two law books past the post office, and the sleepy neighborhood is soon debating what he means to do. At the hardware store, Uncle Buckley Lightfoot even pauses the weighing of a customer’s nails to deliver his verdict.

Fresh from Vermont, Sam has taught school in the easygoing country around Old Ebenezer, but he wants a wider life—and now he is bound for town to practise law with John Caruthers. In this drowsy southwestern community, a schoolteacher is expected to know everything and never leave his post; the town’s legal office, meanwhile, shares space with a newspaper that can barely raise eighty cents to retrieve its next issue. Sam brings learning and ambition to a place where even a hint of haste is cause for comment. Can he make a career here without being lulled back into the shade?

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