“And you really think you have offered me a fair price?”
“Yea; you can’t get as much anywhere else.”
“I’ll take three days to consider it, Mr. Amsden.”
In less than three days Gerald had sold his land for six thousand dollars, reserving twenty acres for himself. He allowed John Carter to remove his cabin to this tract, and at the end of a week set out on his return, with a Chicago check for six thousand dollars in his pocket. This he deposited in St. Louis, and with it made a purchase of good dividend-paying bank stock.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
CONCLUSION.
On his way back from Colorado Gerald stopped at Kansas City and ascertained that Victor Wentworth had recovered from his sickness and was intending to go to work on the following Monday.
“Mrs. Ferguson has agreed to take me back,” he said. “She has had another boy, but she does not like him.”