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"
As
far
as
the
knowledge
of
these
men
and
their
methods
and
their
politics
is
concerned
,
I
can
answer
for
myself
.
I
have
been
fed
on
that
sort
of
knowledge
since
I
was
a
boy
.
I
am
not
likely
to
fall
into
mistakes
from
excess
of
optimism
.
"
"
Not
likely
,
eh
?
That
's
all
right
.
Tact
and
a
stiff
upper
lip
is
what
you
'll
want
;
and
you
could
bluff
a
little
on
the
strength
of
your
backing
.
Not
too
much
,
though
.
We
will
go
with
you
as
long
as
the
thing
runs
straight
.
But
we
wo
n't
be
drawn
into
any
large
trouble
.
This
is
the
experiment
which
I
am
willing
to
make
.
There
is
some
risk
,
and
we
will
take
it
;
but
if
you
ca
n't
keep
up
your
end
,
we
will
stand
our
loss
,
of
course
,
and
then
--
we
'll
let
the
thing
go
.
This
mine
can
wait
;
it
has
been
shut
up
before
,
as
you
know
.
You
must
understand
that
under
no
circumstances
will
we
consent
to
throw
good
money
after
bad
.
"
Thus
the
great
personage
had
spoken
then
,
in
his
own
private
office
,
in
a
great
city
where
other
men
(
very
considerable
in
the
eyes
of
a
vain
populace
)
waited
with
alacrity
upon
a
wave
of
his
hand
.
And
rather
more
than
a
year
later
,
during
his
unexpected
appearance
in
Sulaco
,
he
had
emphasized
his
uncompromising
attitude
with
a
freedom
of
sincerity
permitted
to
his
wealth
and
influence
.
He
did
this
with
the
less
reserve
,
perhaps
,
because
the
inspection
of
what
had
been
done
,
and
more
still
the
way
in
which
successive
steps
had
been
taken
,
had
impressed
him
with
the
conviction
that
Charles
Gould
was
perfectly
capable
of
keeping
up
his
end
.
"
This
young
fellow
,
"
he
thought
to
himself
,
"
may
yet
become
a
power
in
the
land
.
"
This
thought
flattered
him
,
for
hitherto
the
only
account
of
this
young
man
he
could
give
to
his
intimates
was
--
"
My
brother-in-law
met
him
in
one
of
these
one-horse
old
German
towns
,
near
some
mines
,
and
sent
him
on
to
me
with
a
letter
.
He
's
one
of
the
Costaguana
Goulds
,
pure-bred
Englishmen
,
but
all
born
in
the
country
.
His
uncle
went
into
politics
,
was
the
last
Provincial
President
of
Sulaco
,
and
got
shot
after
a
battle
.
His
father
was
a
prominent
business
man
in
Sta
.
Marta
,
tried
to
keep
clear
of
their
politics
,
and
died
ruined
after
a
lot
of
revolutions
.
And
that
's
your
Costaguana
in
a
nutshell
.
"
Of
course
,
he
was
too
great
a
man
to
be
questioned
as
to
his
motives
,
even
by
his
intimates
.
The
outside
world
was
at
liberty
to
wonder
respectfully
at
the
hidden
meaning
of
his
actions
.
He
was
so
great
a
man
that
his
lavish
patronage
of
the
"
purer
forms
of
Christianity
"
(
which
in
its
naive
form
of
church-building
amused
Mrs.
Gould
)
was
looked
upon
by
his
fellow-citizens
as
the
manifestation
of
a
pious
and
humble
spirit
.
But
in
his
own
circles
of
the
financial
world
the
taking
up
of
such
a
thing
as
the
San
Tome
mine
was
regarded
with
respect
,
indeed
,
but
rather
as
a
subject
for
discreet
jocularity
.
It
was
a
great
man
's
caprice
.
In
the
great
Holroyd
building
(
an
enormous
pile
of
iron
,
glass
,
and
blocks
of
stone
at
the
corner
of
two
streets
,
cobwebbed
aloft
by
the
radiation
of
telegraph
wires
)
the
heads
of
principal
departments
exchanged
humorous
glances
,
which
meant
that
they
were
not
let
into
the
secrets
of
the
San
Tome
business
.
The
Costaguana
mail
(
it
was
never
large
--
one
fairly
heavy
envelope
)
was
taken
unopened
straight
into
the
great
man
's
room
,
and
no
instructions
dealing
with
it
had
ever
been
issued
thence
.
The
office
whispered
that
he
answered
personally
--
and
not
by
dictation
either
,
but
actually
writing
in
his
own
hand
,
with
pen
and
ink
,
and
,
it
was
to
be
supposed
,
taking
a
copy
in
his
own
private
press
copy-book
,
inaccessible
to
profane
eyes
.
Some
scornful
young
men
,
insignificant
pieces
of
minor
machinery
in
that
eleven-storey-high
workshop
of
great
affairs
,
expressed
frankly
their
private
opinion
that
the
great
chief
had
done
at
last
something
silly
,
and
was
ashamed
of
his
folly
;
others
,
elderly
and
insignificant
,
but
full
of
romantic
reverence
for
the
business
that
had
devoured
their
best
years
,
used
to
mutter
darkly
and
knowingly
that
this
was
a
portentous
sign
;
that
the
Holroyd
connection
meant
by-and-by
to
get
hold
of
the
whole
Republic
of
Costaguana
,
lock
,
stock
,
and
barrel
.
But
,
in
fact
,
the
hobby
theory
was
the
right
one
.
It
interested
the
great
man
to
attend
personally
to
the
San
Tome
mine
;
it
interested
him
so
much
that
he
allowed
this
hobby
to
give
a
direction
to
the
first
complete
holiday
he
had
taken
for
quite
a
startling
number
of
years
.
He
was
not
running
a
great
enterprise
there
;
no
mere
railway
board
or
industrial
corporation
.
He
was
running
a
man
!
A
success
would
have
pleased
him
very
much
on
refreshingly
novel
grounds
;
but
,
on
the
other
side
of
the
same
feeling
,
it
was
incumbent
upon
him
to
cast
it
off
utterly
at
the
first
sign
of
failure
.
A
man
may
be
thrown
off
.
The
papers
had
unfortunately
trumpeted
all
over
the
land
his
journey
to
Costaguana
.
If
he
was
pleased
at
the
way
Charles
Gould
was
going
on
,
he
infused
an
added
grimness
into
his
assurances
of
support
.
Even
at
the
very
last
interview
,
half
an
hour
or
so
before
he
rolled
out
of
the
patio
,
hat
in
hand
,
behind
Mrs.
