"Bill," he said, "that little flapper-jack was the president of the town-site company for the K.P.Railroad, and he's run such a bluff on our citizens about a new town site that is going to be a division-point that they've all moved over there." "Yes," commented Mrs.Cody, "and where is your $250,000 ?" "Well, I've got to make it yet," I said, and then to Rose: "How did the fall hit you ?" "What fall ?" "From millionaire to pauper." "It hasn't got through hitting me yet," he said solemnly.
Rose went back to his grading contract, and I resumed my work as a buffalo hunter.

When the Perry House, the Rome hotel, was moved to Hays City and rebuilt there, I took my wife and daughter and installed them there.
It was hard to descend from the rank of millionaires to that of graders and buffalo hunters, but we had to do it.

The rise and fall of modern Rome had made us, and it broke us!.