You can put a plow in one corner of that section, and plow every foot of it without taking the share out of the ground." "All or nothing," said I, "and more." Next day he came back and said he would let me have the whole section; but that it would break him.

He wanted to be fair with me--more than fair.

People had set me against him, he said, looking at Jackway who was-drinking at the bar; but nobody could say that he was a man who would not deal fairly with an ignorant boy.
"I've got to have a team, a wagon, a cover for the wagon, and provisions for the trip," I said, "and a few hundred dollars to live on for a while after I get to Iowa." At this he threw his hands up, and left me, saying that if I wanted to ruin him I would have to do it through the courts.

He had gone as far as he would go, and I would never have another offer as generous as he had made me.

The next day I met on the street the red-headed girl, who went by the name of Alice Rucker, and was notorious as a medium.