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Samson and other men, left in New
Salem, had met to consider plans for a stockade.
"And then there's the fever an' ague," Samson added.
"Sometimes I feel sorry I told 'em about it because they'll think it
worse than it is. But we've got to tell the truth if it kills us."
"Yes: we've got to tell the truth," Samson rejoined. "There'll be a
railroad coming through here one of these days and then we can all get
back and forth easy. If it comes it's going to make us rich. Abe says he
expects it within three or four years."
Sarah had a hot supper ready for him. As he stood warming himself by the
fire she put her arms around him and gave him a little hug.
"You poor tired man!" she said. "How patient and how good you are!"
There was a kind of apology for this moment of weakness in her look and
manner. Her face seemed to say: "It's silly but I can't help it."
"I've been happy all the time for I knew you was waiting for me," Samson
remarked. "I feel rich every time I think of you and the children.


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