“It turned out just as the girl said. He has served the people three terms and if he had not worked for their interests they would never have sent him back the third time.
“Adversity, sir, is oftimes the making of us. I never thought so when Bob Lee surrendered and our dreams of imperialism vanished and left most of us without a dollar. But I can see now it is all for the 255 best. As a nation united we welcome all men regardless of their nationality, and, in return, they give us the best thoughts the world can produce.”
“Rayder, what became of him?” asked his companion.
“When Rayder bought the mine he thought he had millions but he only took out of it about enough to get even when the vein gave out between two big slabs of granite that came together like the thin end of a wedge. A widow who had fits sued him about this time for a breach of promise, and either to get out of that or get square with some old enemy, he married the widow Amos.”
I arose and stood before the attorney and his companion. “I want to shake hands with you, sir,” I said. He arose, and in extending his hand, said: “Your name, please?”
“I am the other fellow you rescued from the cabin,” I replied.