In the big world full of nameless terrors the one spot offering shelter and safety for herself and her family was her home.

But after all, her husband was her great concern, and she could see he was eager for the change.

She made up her mind to the sacrifice and decided that she would break up the home in Mapleton and with her husband try again their fortune.
"But four thousand dollars," she said, "is surely a small price." "Small?
I know it is small, but Martin knows I am in a corner.

He is a highway robber." It was a bitter experience for him to be forced to confess himself a business failure, and with this bitterness there mingled a feeling of hostility toward all successful business men.

To him it seemed that in order to win success in business a man must become, like Mr.Martin, a highway robber.