I had handed my resignation to the school-board;
these men came to ask me that I reconsider. The board,
so I had heard, was going to accept my decision and let
it go at that. According to this committee the board did
not represent the majority of the citizens in town. They
argued for some time against my stubbornness. At last,
fretting under the delay, I put it bluntly. "I have
nothing to reconsider, gentlemen. The matter does no
longer rest with me. If, as I hear, the board is going
to accept my resignation, that settles the affair for
me. It must of necessity suit me or I should not have
resigned. But you might see the board. Maybe they are
making a mistake. In fact, I think so. That is not my
business, however." And I went.
The time was short enough in any case; this cut it shorter.
It was five o'clock before I swung out on the western
road. I counted on moonlight, though, the fickle luminary
being in its first quarter. But there were clouds in the
north and the weather was by no means settled. As for my
lights, they were useless for driving so long as the
ground was completely buried under its sheet of snow.
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