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Sadie Grimes: Sacrifice Or Patient?

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Sadie Grimes is smart and patient. The first reason is she is smart is that see knew there were 2 thousand dollars in the house because her son hid it and someone killed him for the money so she put her house up for sale to catch the guy who killed her son.She knew that the person who killed her son for the money would come back to get it. An example for this is that it states in the story that she put her house up for sale for 175,000 dollars so she could catch the guy who killed her son because she knew that no one would pay 175,000 dollars for a run-down old house unless they knew the money was there.The last reason is that Sadie Grimes is patient because she waited five years for the man who killed her son to come back. She waited a really

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