, he has other work
at home. A farm makes many demands on one."
"I have no doubt it does," agreed the engineer. "One imagines that on
the Festing farm all demands will be met."
He signed to the agent, the others went down the steps, and the bell
began to toll as the lighted cars rolled by. The rattle of wheels got
louder, and a plume of smoke trailed back and spread in a dingy cloud,
but Helen and Festing stood, a little way from the others, watching the
receding train. They felt that something was finished; satisfactorily
finished amidst well-earned praise, but done with for good. Festing
looked at Helen with a comprehending smile.
"You answered right; I'm not going back! Our work is waiting, here on
the plains."
"Ah," said Helen softly, "how much easier you make it when you call it
ours!"
They went to the hotel where they had left the team, and as the others
followed Sadie turned to her husband with a glow of happy pride. He had
come back, so to speak, triumphant, the guest of famous men who had said
flattering things about him, and for his sake the train had been held up
while the great contractor talked to her.
"Bob," she said, "you have made good! I can't tell you all I feel about
it. Some day you'll be a famous man."
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