I was seized with a vehement desire to prove to them that I could become richer than they were.

I rushed madly into the pursuit of wealth, and I was successful; but meanwhile they had married her to another, and I found that wealth alone could not bring happiness.

In vain the profits of my business doubled and quadrupled.

I was unsatisfied, lonely, and sad.

Commercial transactions brought me into intimate relations with Senor Gonsalez, a Spanish gentleman in St.Augustine.He had formed an alliance with a beautiful slave, whom he had bought in the French West Indies.