"Mrs. Saylor, you see I am back and have brought three others with me. We will be here a week. I hope you will not find us too troublesome. The two chainmen will sleep in the loft on the hay, so as not to crowd you."
"We are glad to have you; come right in."
"Miss Mary, you must treat us like home folks; no extra work now or we will move down to old man Howard's. Your school and those big boys are enough of a worry."
"I have more time. They have another teacher at the school, Mrs. Field's sister. They removed me because of father's conviction."
"Who?"
"The county superintendent and the trustees."
"When we buy your father's land, why don't you go east to school?"
"I have been thinking of that. What school would you suggest?"
"Go to one of the best—Wellesley."
The next morning at sun-up the party started surveying the Saylor property. This they completed in two days; the boundary held three hundred and five acres.