54 ADVENTURES IN IDEALISM 



With no thoughts like these in mind he went to the 

 president of the college and showed him the telegram. 

 Dr. O'Brien very kindly consented to the eight days' 

 leave. With his daughter Marie, who could hardly 

 ever be parted from her father, he left for New York. 

 Exactly what took place at the meeting of the Baron 

 de Hirsch Fund Committee, that following Sunday, 

 I do not know; but on Monday I received a telegram, 

 saying: 



"Get ready. Am coming to take you and children 

 to New York." 



To say that I was surprised is saying very little. 

 Neither my husband nor I had had the slightest inkling 

 of an offer to manage the proposed Jewish Colony 

 awaiting him at that Sunday conference. He told me 

 how surprised and pleased he had been when upon 

 entering the room, a man came forward and greeted 

 him with outstretched hands. That man was the only 

 one present who he knew, being none other than 

 Henry Rice, who had helped him to get to Fort Collins. 

 My husband felt the pleasure of meeting him the more 

 keenly, as by this time he had paid off the debt. 



When my husband returned and told the president 

 of the college that he had come back to resign, the 

 president was dumfounded. 



"Professor Sabsovich," he said, "you know that 

 at our last meeting we voted an increase in your salary 



