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After he was gone she put the silver carefully away and interviewed the hero, as often before, with a shingle. "Not only for playing hookey," she said; "but for going into the water at all." The little fellow rescued that day is Thomas McCaffery, now a member of the Alleghany City Fire Department. Many years afterwards he gave Paul a gold medal in remembrance of their first meeting.
"I am Thomas McCaffery, whose life you saved more than twenty years ago. Of all men in the world, I most desired to meet you," and Paul returned the warm hand pressure of the fireman. An evening most agreeable to both was passed in recounting their adventures of other days. Before Paul left Pittsburgh, Mr.
McCaffery presented him with a gold medal, commemorating the important event in his life, which, but for Boyton, would have terminated so disastrously. Some time was spent about Pittsburgh, while preparations were made for a voyage down the Alleghany and Ohio rivers, which he had decided on making.
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