"Well, I thought maybe I could get a hundred dollars," said the other
and then he stopped, hesitating.

Adam and Dan exchanged a quick glance.

"Money's mighty scarce hereabouts," said Adam.

"Still," said Dan, "I don't know, I'll go to the village tomorrow and
see what I can do."

So Dan drove away and came back in the evening and there was another
council; he produced eight new ten-dollar bills.

"It was the best I could do," he said. "I'm sorry if it ain't enough"-
-and then he stopped.

"I'll make that do," said Samuel.

And so his brother produced a long and imposing-looking document;
Samuel was too polite to read it but signed at once, and so the
bargain was closed. And that night Samuel packed his few belongings in
a neat newspaper bundle and before sunrise the next morning he set out
upon his search.




CHAPTER III