Whatever the event he would strive to meet it with patience, dignity, and resignation.

It was not his part to ask questions or to reason why; it was his part to struggle on and take such guerdon as it pleased Providence to send him.
Thus thought Leonard, and this is the right spirit for an adventurer to cultivate.

It is the right spirit in which to meet the good and ill of life--that greatest of adventures which every one of us must dare.

He who meets them thus and holds his heart pure and his hands clean will lay himself down to sleep without a sigh or a regret when mountain, swamp, river, and forest all are travelled, and the unknown innumerable treasure, buried from the olden time far out of reach of man's sight and knowledge, at last is opened to his gaze.
So Leonard started, and his hopes were high notwithstanding the desperate nature of their undertaking.

For here it must be confessed that the undesirable element of superstition still held fast upon his mind, and now with some slight cause.