"Here my guides said thoy must leave me, and though I entreated their company to the city, they utterly refused. I there fore set out alone.
"Yon can imagine my desolation at be ing left, even by tho desperate, black huec. men who had been my companions so far. Even they had some sense of humanity in them, some sympathy for my loneliness, though it waa a moody, silent sympathy. But now I was alone, a strange city that I did not know before mo, tho Andes behind me. If I was ever homesick in my life it was on that morning. If I over wished I wero at homo with a wife and children about me, that was tho time. As i tramped «?n I dreamed of all these things. I care fully recalled all tho young ladies of my acquaintance, to see if any of them would do for a wife. Some were more or less at tractive, but there were many difficulties in the way of really marrying any ono of them. After a time I turned from a con sideration of the individual female to a consideration of tho money question. That seemed less doubtful, for I had begun to know my own powers and to trust them. I then and there resolved that I would work no longer for another master, but go into bu_vnesa for myself when I returned to San flfrancisco. I had a little capital laid by,

ana, or course, mere were many scuemes for using it profitably already formed in my mind. I nay be pardoned for saying that my resolve was carried out, though perhaps nob as I had hoped.
