It was not easy, I say, but my love for you made it a glorious thing to do; and I hoped and believed that if I proved myself a man, I could go back to you, in the strength of my manhood, and you would listen to me.

And so, penniless and a stranger, under an assumed name, I sought useful, necessary work that called for the highest quality of manhood.

And I have won, Helen; I know that I have won.
To-day Patches, the cowboy, can look any man in the face.

He can take his place and hold his own among men of any class anywhere.

I have regained that of which the circumstances of birth and inheritance and training robbed me.