She was stout, and she had never been beautiful, but her face seemed very pleasant to Ned, as she asked the Holy Virgin to watch over him in his wanderings.
"I have five silver dollars," said Benito.

"They are yours.

They will make the way shorter." But Ned refused absolutely to accept them.

He would not take the store of people who had been so kind to him.

Instead he offered the single dollar that he had left for a heavy knife like a machete.