It was at this time that the new church to be built at
Corklesville needed an architect--a fact which Jack communicated
to Garry. Then it happened that with the aid of MacFarlane and
Holker Morris the commission was finally awarded to that "rising
young genius who had so justly distinguished himself in the
atelier of America's greatest architect--Holker Morris--" all of
which Garry wrote himself and had inserted in the county paper, he
having called upon the editor for that very purpose. This service
--and it came at a most critical time in the young man's affairs--
the Scribe is glad to say, Garry, with his old-time generous
spirit suddenly revived, graciously acknowledged thanking Jack
heartily and with meaning in his voice, as well as MacFarlane--not
forgetting Ruth, to whom he sent a mass of roses as big as a
bandbox.
The gaining of this church building--the largest and most
important given the young architect since he had left Morris's
protection and guidance--decided Garry to give up at once his
expensive quarters in New York and move to Corklesville.
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