Jo looked down the street at the nearly completed roundhouse and the
track-laying engine working on below the town.

"I?" she said dreamily. "Why--why--I don't just know. The steel has
come, and now freight will reach here by train. We're going to New
York--Hiram and I--and maybe across the Atlantic. But we'll come back
soon, and--and---- Oh, there'll be a new road building
somewhere--another Ragtown. We couldn't quit, I guess. What's city
life and all that money will buy compared with the thrill of driving a
ten-horse jerkline team over the desert and the mountains? I guess,
after we've looked about the Gentle Wild Cat and I will just keep on
driving jerkline to Ragtown--somewhere."

She pointed over the desert to where a bent old man and six drifting
burros were blending gradually into the landscape.

"He's not crazy," she said softly. "He has just voiced a great
fundamental truth for all humanity. Money is only a grubstake. The
world needs gold and--and freight. Jerkline to Ragtown--that's life!
Some Ragtown will need freight--some Ragtown--somewhere."

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