“Jones has stated the facts in the case,” said Mr. Palmer, “and advised well; but it won’t do for you to have any falling out with Smith. If 78 you will leave the matter with me, I guess I can manage it so that you shall have the eighty acres, and there be no bad feelings. We had better pay Smith something than to have a quarrel.”
“But is Smith a member of a church?” asked the missionary.
“We don’t know who is who, yet,” answered the other; “but should we ever form a church here, of course he’ll have to show a certificate of membership in order to join; and I rather think he’ll never be able to do that. Do him all the good you can, but don’t trust him overmuch.”
CHAPTER VI.
MRS. JONES’S STORY.–THE GRAY WOLF.
“Was it so very different east, mother,” asked Tom, one day, “where you came from, from what it is here?”
“Different in what respects?” she inquired.
“O,” he answered, hesitatingly, “I mean, were folks as poor and ignorant as–as–”