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But Sir Thomas Bodley, when retiring from office in 1597, conceived the idea of restoring it to prosperity again; 'and in a few years so richly endowed it with books, revenues, and buildings, that it became one of the most famous in the world. Bodley has left us his own account of the matter: 'I concluded at the last to set up my staff at the library-door in Oxon.
Hiram Bodley had been a hunter and guide, but of late years rheumatism had kept him from doing work and Joe was largely the support of the pair, taking out pleasure parties for pay whenever he could, and fishing and hunting in the between times, and using or selling what was gained thereby. There was a good deal of a mystery surrounding Joe's parentage.
He was thus able to employ well-selected agents in different parts of Europe to buy books on his account, which it was his pleasure to receive, his rapture to unpack, his pride to despatch in what he calls 'dry-fats' that is, weather-tight chests to Dr. James, the first Bodley librarian. Nor had he any mean taint of nature that might have grudged other men a hand in the great work.
It was all pretty bewildering to him, too, this great and splendid establishment, the glorious church by Bodley, with the Magnificat in Gothic lettering below the roof, the well-built and furnished clergy-house, the ladies' house, the zeal, the self-devotion, the parochial machinery, the Band of Hope, the men's and boys' clubs, and, above all, the furious district-visiting.
"Have you any idea at all what became of William Bodley?" "Not exactly. Once I met a man in Pittsburg who had met a man of that name in Idaho, among the mines. Both of us wondered if that William A. Bodley was the same that I had bought my farm from." "Did he say what part of Idaho?" "He did, but I have forgotten now. Do you think he was a relative of yours?" "I don't know what to think.
The Honorable Abel Newt was elected to Congress in place of the Honorable Watkins Bodley, who withdrew on account of the embarrassment of his private affairs. At a special meeting of the General Committee, Mr.
"I'm coming up soon, to find out about that Bill Bodley," said Joe. As late as it was Joe listened to what Maurice Vane had to tell. "Now that Caven and Malone are gone I do not anticipate further trouble at the mine," said the gentleman. "I am in practical possession of all the shares, and shall have a clear title to the whole property inside of a few weeks."
Enos Slugby, Chairman of the Ward Committee, introduced a long and eloquent resolution, deploring the loss sustained by the city and by the whole country in the resignation of the Honorable Watkins Bodley sympathizing with him in the perplexity of his private affairs but rejoicing that the word "close up!" was always faithfully obeyed that there was always a fresh soldier to fill the place of the retiring and that the Party never summoned her sons in vain.
Joe began to peruse the half-burnt documents but could make little or nothing out of them. He saw his own name and also that of a certain William A. Bodley, and an estate in Iowa was mentioned. "What do you find, Joe?" "I can't tell you, Ned. The papers are too badly burnt." "Let me look at them." Our hero was willing, and the two boys spent an hour in trying to decipher the documents.
Indeed, he was so carried away by the atmosphere of the place as to offer to present to the Bodleian whatever books Sir Thomas Bodley might think fit to lay hands upon in any of the royal libraries, and he kept this royal word so far as to confirm the gift under the Privy Seal. But there it seems to have stopped, for the Bodleian does not contain any volumes traceable to this source.
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