I'm goin' away." She clung to the wagon seat and cried loudly when her father took her down.
"Ain't that enough to break a man's heart ?" he said with a sorrowful look.
Then Samson turned to Brimstead and asked: "Look here, Henry Brimstead, are you a drinking man?
Honor bright now." "Never drink a thing but water and tea." "Do you know of anybody who'll give ye anything for what you own here ?" "There's a man in the next town who offered me three hundred and fifty dollars for my interest." "How far is it ?" "Three miles." "Come along with us and get the money if you can.

I'll help ye fit up and go where ye can earn a living." "I'd like to, but my horse is lame and I can't leave the children." "Put 'em right in this wagon and come on.

If there's a livery in the place, I'll send ye home." So the children rode in the wagon and Samson and Brimstead walked, while Sarah drove the team to the next village.

There the good woman bought new clothes for the whole Brimstead family and Brimstead sold his interest in the sand plains and bought a good pair of horses, with harness and some cloth for a wagon cover, and had fifty dollars in his pocket and a new look in his face.

He put his children on the backs of the horses and led them to his old home, with a sack of provisions on his shoulder.