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During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.

It generally took well into the autumn for the firm to recover from the summer's help.

`` We'd give him things to deliver, letters, checks, deeds and things like that '', remembers his half-brother Walter, still in the real estate business in Savannah, `` and learn days later that he'd absent-mindedly stuffed them into his pocket.

There they stayed ''.