“You answered right; I’m not going back!  Our work is waiting, here on the plains.”

“Ah,” said Helen softly, “how much easier you make it when you call it ours!”

They went to the hotel where they had left the team, and as the others followed Sadie turned to her husband with a glow of happy pride.  He had come back, so to speak, triumphant, the guest of famous men who had said flattering things about him, and for his sake the train had been held up while the great contractor talked to her.

“Bob,” she said, “you have made good!  I can’t tell you all I feel about it.  Some day you’ll be a famous man.”