Page:The strength of Gideon, and other stories (IA strengthgideon00dunbrich).pdf/384

This page needs to be proofread.

362 SILAS JACKSON


some of the few things that remained to him from his prosperous days, and with the money purchased a ticket for home; then spent, broken, hopeless, all contentment and simplicity gone, he iurned his face toward his native fields.