The Man

It was not as though the speaker were a stranger, in which case he would have been by now well on in his death by strangulation; he had known Leonard all his life, and he was a friend of Stephen’s. Far from it, where there are no interests of those dear to them they can be of a sincerity of justice that can make a man’s blood run cold. His debts being paid, fear was removed, and all the hectoring side of the man was aroused. Finally, with the full complement, and with ample supply of stores, he started on his expedition to the new goldfields.