Here I shall stay until that surplus
materializes; and you know in our country we have neither coal nor oil
nor iron."
"But they tell me that you are to teach the school," she said.
"For which I am grateful," I answered. "Twenty dollars a month is the
salary, and school keeps for six months, so I shall earn the large sum
of $120 a year."
"But your pension?"
"With my pension I shall be a nabob in Six Stars. Anywhere else I
should cut a very poor figure. But after all, this is the best place,
for is there any place where the skies are bluer; is there any place
where the grass is greener; is there any place where the storms are
wilder than over our mountains?"
"Sometimes I would say in Kansas," the girl answered. "Here the world
seems to end at the top of the mountain. It is hard to picture
anything beyond that. Out there you raise yourself on tiptoe, and you
see the world rolling away for miles and miles, and it seems to have no
ending."
"I suppose you will not be able to endure your imprisonment.
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