Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-28

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.
Thus il was that Harolds thoughts,
ever circling round the main idea of Ste
phen, came back with increasing assidu
ity and insistence to his duty toward
her. He often thought, and with 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 keenly in tine dimness of the
dusk or through the blacknesS of the
night the words which had been so
burned into his brain In those moments
O. misery when they waited for Stephen
to come 20 her dying father. that they
could never pass from his memory:
Guard her and cherish her. as II you
were. indeed. my son and she your sis
ter. If 1t should be that you and
Stephen should find that there is another
affection between you. remember that
sanction it. But give her time! l trust
that to you. She is young and the world
is all before her. Let her choose
And be loyal to her. If it is another! 1t
may be hard task. but l trust you,
Harold.''
Here he would groan. as all the an
guish of the past would rush back upon
him. and keenest of all would be the
fear. suspicion. thought which grew to-
ward belief, that he may have betrayed
that trust. -
Luck is a strange thing.
Dame Fortune seemed now to change
her attitude to him. The fierce frown
nay, Her malignant scowl changed to a
smile Everything seemed now all at
hardy again. His geological specimens
multiplied. and he began to feel that he
was on the trail of fortune. Everywhere
he went there were traces of gold. as
though by some instinct he was tracking
it to it's home. He did not value gold for
its own sake. but he did for the ardor of
the search.
1t was hardly any wonder. then, that
al 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 aV3rice.
1t is net purposed to set out here the
extraordinary growth of Robinson City,
for thus the mining camp which he estab-
lished soon became. The history of Rob-
inson City has long ago been told for all
the world. Already there is crop of
legends of the extraordinary difficulties
and dangers of the route: of the vast for
tunes achieved by individuals and COM
panies; of the hardships suffered from a
cold so intense 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 it. In
the early days when everything had to be
organized and protected Harold worked
ike a giant. ana WIFI d system anu ell
ergy 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 commerce, when banks and
police and soldiers made life and prop
erty 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
hi ms
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 it
came accompanied by a new desire for
action. which was the logical outcome of
his long period of strenuous exertion.
He quietly consolidated such outlying
interests as he had. placed the manage
ment 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 important
business. left Robinon City. He had al
ready accumulated such fortune that
the world was before him in any way in
which he might in the future choose to
take ii.
Knowing that at San Francisco. to
which he had booked. he would have to
again run the gantlat of certain Of his
friends and business connections, he made
haste to leave the ship quietly at Port
land the first point she touched at on her
southern Journey. Then he got on the
Canadian Pacific line and took his way
to Montreal.
The life in the wilderness. and then In
the dominance and masterdom of enter
prise. had hardened and strengthened him
into more self-reliant manhood. giving
him greater forbearance and more prac.
teal view of things. But in his heart of
hearts, he was. with regard to all things
relating to Stephen and the past, still a
boy: with all boys secret. vague hop
ing: a boys nervous fears In one matter,
and one only-love.
When he took ship in the Dominion, a
large cargo boat with some passengers
running to London, he had a vague pur-
pose of visiting in secret Worcester.
whence he could manage to find out how
matters were at Normanstand. He would
then. he felt. be in a better position TO
regulate his further movements He
knew that he had already sufficient dis
guise in his great beard. He had nothing
to fear from the tracing of him on his
journey from Alaska; the width of a
whole great continent lay between him
and the place of his fame. He was able
to take his part freely among both the
passengers and the officers OF the snip.
Even among the crew he soon came to be
known: the men liked his geniality. and
instinctively respected his enormous
strength and his manifest force OF cnar-
acter. Men who work and VINO kno"
danger soon learn to recognize the forces
which overcome both. After some DAYS
the fine weather changed: bowling winds
and growing seas were the environment
Much damage was done to the ship and
10 the machinery. Buwarks were torn
away as though they had been compact
of paper. Nearly all the boats had been
wrecked. broken or torn from their cranes
as the great ship rolled heavily In the
trough of the giant waves.
At that season she sailed on the far
northern course. Driven still farther
north by the gales she came within
short way of the south of Greenland.
Then avoiding Neville. which should have
been her place of call, she ran down the
east of Britain, the wild weather still pre-
Vailing.