If she won't have me, let her take a better man."
"In my opinion Bim will want you," said the legislator. "I'll be coming
home in a few days and will bring the papers with me. The session is
about over. If the rich men refuse to back our plans, there's going to be
a crowd of busted statesmen in Illinois, and I'll be one of 'em."
"Shall you spend the summer in New Salem?"
"I don't know yet what I shall do. First I must tackle the delicate task
of getting disengaged from Mary."
"I shouldn't think it would take long," said Harry, with a smile.
"I can tell better after a preliminary survey."
"No doubt Mrs. Able would like to have you marry her sister. She knows
that you have a promising future ahead of you. But don't allow her to
look serious over that little joke."
Abe Lincoln laughed and said: "Mary would be like the man who traded
horses unsight and unseem and drew a saw horse."
Harry returned to New Salem. After the session, young Mr. Lincoln went to
Springfield and did not reach New Salem until the first week of May.
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