ernoon, and
the last little accessories were now piled in the car. As, hand on
the wheel, she paused a moment before starting, she was conscious of a
choking sensation. It was over, finished--she, the last of Martin, was
leaving it, for good. Before her rolled the quarter section, except for
the little box-house, as bare of fences and buildings as when the Wades
had first camped on it in their prairie schooner. With what strange
prophetic vision had Martin foreseen so clearly that all the
construction of his life would crumble. Would Jacob and Sarah Wade have
had the courage to make all their sacrifices, she wondered, if they had
known that she and she alone, daughter of a Patrick and Norah Conroy,
whom they had never seen, would some day stand there profiting by it
all? She thought of the mortgages in the bank and the bonds, of the
easier life she seemed to be entering. How strange that she whom
Grandfather and Grandmother Wade had not even known, she whom Martin
had never loved, should be the one to reap the real benefits from their
planning, and that the farm itself, for which her husband had been
willing to sacrifice Billy and herself, should be utterly destroyed. A
sudden breeze caught up some of the dust and whirling it around let
it fall. "Martin's life," thought Rose, "it was like a handful of dust
thrown into God's face and blown back again by the wind to the ground."

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