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 he said, I'm losing a lawyer but I'm gaining a, I mean, I'm losing a

 client, but I'm gaining a good friend and that's one of the best

 friends that Brantley has right now, is McInturk Gainesford, right now.

 I can call him right now and ask him for anything and--

B: Did you fall in love right away or---

MB: Well, not until he told me he was Indian. He told me--I said what

 nationality are you. He looked like Daddy.

B: There is a striking resemblance between your father's picture and your--

MB: Yes, and he looks much like Daddy, and I worship my Daddy, and although

 Daddy was very strict on 5"-rj 0h -' e could look over his glasses,

 we always had dinner in the dining room, we don't live like this today.

 But Brantley, I saw in him something and I saw what my father had turned

 down. They wanted Dad to run for Congress. They wanted Dad to run for

 this and for that, and he wouldn't do it because we had an estate, and

 he says I'm happy at what I've got, and we did have an estate.

B: It seems to me--

MB: We had a mill dam and we had bridges, concrete bridges, and we had orchards,

 we had hands, we had black cattle, we had ---

B: Were you brought up out in the country on a country estate or something

 like this?

MB: No, you'd be surprised because the first man that Kingsport, see Dad was

 one of the first men, and you have your choice. You pick your land.

 So he picked it.

B: Did this young lawyer greatness, was it sorta a promise in the beginning

 to you, or was it 5r0 o {, Y& cc< nl- 1 /f / ;f y IQ cd t\c ak Ct

MB: Well you see I had been in this terrible. my grandfather had given me