th riches beyond the dreams of avarice.
But that labour was no easy problem; great and difficult distance had to
be overcome; secrecy must be observed, for even a whisper of the
existence of such a place would bring a horde of desperadoes. But all
these difficulties were at least sources of interest, if not in
themselves pleasures. The new Harold, seemingly freshly created by a
year of danger and strenuous toil, of self-examining and humiliation, of
the realisation of duty, and--though he knew it not as yet--of the
dawning of hope, found delight in the thought of dangers and difficulties
to be overcome. Having taken his bearings exactly so as to be safe in
finding the place again, he took his specimens with him and set out to
find the shortest and best route to the nearest port.

At length he came to the port and set quietly about finding men. This he
did very carefully and very systematically. Finally, with the full
complement, and with ample supply of stores, he started on his expedition
to the new goldfields.

It is not purposed to set out here the extraordinary growth of Robinson
City, for thus the mining camp soon became. Its history has long ago
been told for all the world. In the early days, when everything had to
be organised and protected, Harold worked like a giant, and with a system
and energy which from the first established him as a master. But when
the second year of his exile was coming to a close, and Robinson City was
teeming with life and commerce, when banks and police and soldiers made
life and property comparatively safe, he began to be restless again. This
was not the life to which he had set himself. He had gone into the
wilderness to be away from cities and from men; and here a city had
sprung up around him and men claimed him as their chief. Moreover, with
the restless feeling there began to come back to him the old thoughts and
the old pain.

But he felt strong enough by this time to look forward in life as well as
backward. With him now to think was to act; so much at least he had
gained from his position of dominance in an upspringing city. He quietly
consolidated such outlying interests as he had, placed the management of
his great estate in the hands of a man he had learned to trust, and
giving out that he was going to San Francisco to arrange some business,
left Robinson City. He had already accumulated such a fortune that the
world was before him in any way he might choose