The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-18

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 Gradually his mind came back to normal level; he had won seemingly through the pain that shadowed him Without anguish he could now think, remember, look forward. Even at times he would unconscieusly begin to build again such hopes as a young man ar dour will create from empty air. Then 1t was that the kindly wisdom of the American came back to him. and came to stay. He began to examine him self as to his own part of the unhappy transaction; and stray moments Of wonderment came as to whether the fault may not, at the very base, have been his own. We'll was 1t for him that when this f-questioning came he had been strengthened to a pitch of endurance which was an added gain to his nature: for its bitterness was be- yond belief. It was bad enough to have suffered as he had! But if 1t was his own laundering which had wrought the havoc not only to himself but to Stepheni .. He began to realize a little that 1t Is insufficient in this strenuous world to watch and wait; to suppress ones self; to put aside. in the wish to benefit others. all the hopes. ambitions cravings which make for personal gain. 2
 Thus it was that Harolds thoughts, ever circling round the main idea of Stephen, came back with increasing as- siduity and insistenee to his duty to- wards her. He often thought, and with a bitter. feeling against himself that 1t came too late, of the dying trust of her father. And then he would remember, most often and most keen ly in the dimness of the dusk or through the blackness of the night, the words which had been so burned into his brain in those moments of misery when they waited for, stephen to come to her dying father. that they could never pass from his memory:
 Guard her and cherish her, as If you were indeed my son and she your sister. .. If 1t should be that you and stephen should find that there Is another affection between you, re- member that I sanction 1t. But give her timei I trust that to youi She is young, and the world Is all before her. Let her choose. And be loyal to her, if 1t Is another! It may be a hard task; but I trust you. Haroldr'
 Here he would groan. as all the an- guish of the past would rush back up- on him; and keenest of all would be the fear, suspicion thought which grew towards belief, that he may have be- trayed that trust. ..
 Luck is a strange thing.
 Dame Fortune seemed now to change her attitude to him. The fierce frown. nayl Her malignant scowl changed to a smile. Everything seemed now all al once to go right. He grew strong and hardy again. His geological specimens multiplied, and he began to feel that he was on the trail of fortune. Every where he went there were traces of gold. as though by some instict he was tracking it to its home. He did not value gold for it's own sake; but he did for the ardor of the search.
 It was hardly any wonder. then, that at last he found himself all alone in the midst of one of the great treasure places of the world. Only labor was needed to take from the earth riches beyond the dreams of avarice.
 It is not purposed to set out here the extraordinary growth of Robinson City, for thus the mining camp which he established soon became. The his- tory of Robinson City has long ago been told for all the world. Already there Is a crop of legends of the ex- traordnary difficulties and dangers of the route; of the vast fortunes achieved by individuals and companies; of the hardships suffered from a cold So tn- tense that the ground could not be opened for alluvial or pocket search till great fires had thawed the soil; of hunger and starvation and danger in the place and on the way to and from IL. Tn the early udyS WHCA eNGIJlHli had to be organized and protected Har' old worked like a giant, and with a system and energy which from the very first established him as a master. But when the second year of his exile was coming to a close, and when Robinson City was teeming with life and com merce when banks and police and sol- diers made life and property compara- lively safe, he began to be restless tp nf fha life fn which he had set himself. He had gone into the wilderness to be away from cities and from men; and here 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. There was this difference! that now 1t came accompanied by new desire for action which was the logical outcome of his long period of strenuous exertion.
 He quietly consolidated such outly- ing interests as he had, placed the man agement of his great estate In the hands of a man whom he had learned to trust. and giving out that he was going to San Francisco to arrange some import ant business left Robinson City. He had already accumulated such a for tune that the world was before him in any way in which he might in the future choose to take it.
 Knowing that at San Francisco, to which he had booked, he would have to again run the gauntlet of certain of his friends and business connections. he made haste to leave the ship quietly at Portland, the first point she touched at on her southern journey. Thence he got on the Canadian Pacific Line and took his way to Montreal.
 The life in the wilderness, then in in dominance and masterdom of enter prise. had hardened and strengthened him into more elf-Feliant manhood. giving him greater forbearance and a more practical view of things. But in his heart of hearts, he was. with re- gard to all things relating to Stephen and the past still boy with all boy's secret. vague hoping; boys ner- vous fears in one matter, and one only: love.
 When he took ship in the Dominion. q large cargo-boat with some passen- gers running to London. he had vague purpore of visiting in secret Worcester. when he could manage to find out how matters were at Norman stand. He would then. he felt be n A better position to regulate his further movements. He knew that be had al-