CHAPTER VI 



PIONEERING WITH PIONEERS 



TT7HEN Mr. Sabsovich reached Fort Collins Dr. 

 O'Brien left on a three weeks' honeymoon. 



My husband was in full charge of the laboratory. 

 Having been but one year in the country he had not 

 yet a perfect command of the language, and was not 

 quite sure whether his interpretations would be always 

 exact. He had engaged in chemical analysis only 

 while he was a student and not since that time. Thus, 

 being of a very shy nature, it suited him admirably to 

 be left entirely alone at the very beginning of the work. 



During those three weeks he worked for Dr. O'Brien 

 fifteen hours daily, Sundays included, until he found 

 he had a full grasp of the work. When his chief re- 

 turned he could not compliment his new assistant suffi- 

 ciently on the splendid results obtained in the analyses 

 of soils, foods, and so on; apart from the look of the 

 laboratory in general. The biggest thing was now 

 accomplished. My husband felt at ease, for he knew 

 then that he could handle the work. 



Six weeks later my two daughters, Marie and Vera, 

 and I joined him in Colorado. We found a nice little 

 home, one or two blocks away from the College, and 

 furnished it on the instalment plan with monthly pay- 



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