The officer on duty wrote the order, and the couple were soon together.
Another story goes as follows:
Creditors treated the struggling Lincoln with the utmost patience. They often quoted the moral that patience is not pardon. Lincoln was given the chance to show his own patience when his turn came. Before he became president, Lincoln was a lawyer. One of his clients was long overdue in paying his bill. He ran into the man by chance on the steps of the @Springfield court house.
He greeted him politely and commented about the man's accident. @Cogdale had lost a hand in a gunpowder accident. He began to apologize for his overdue bill, showing that he was crippled. Lincoln plainly expressed his sympathy and sorrow.
"I have been thinking about that bill of yours," he said.
