And the whole community, including some of the injured farmers themselves, considered Hendricks a sissy for his scruples, and thought Barclay a shrewd financier for claiming all that he could get.

Barclay got hold of eight thousand acres of wheat land, in adjacent tracts, and went ahead with his business.

In August he ploughed the ground for another crop.

Also he persuaded his mother to let him build a new home on the site of the Barclay home by the Sycamore tree under the ridge, and when it was done that winter Mr.and Mrs.John Barclay moved out of their rooms at the Thayer House and lived with John's mother.

The house they built cost ten thousand dollars when it was finished, and it may still be seen as part of the great rambling structure that he built in the nineties.