These they must seek elsewhere.

For the rest, in my way I am honest.

I take the world as it comes, that is all, and, as women will be fools, I profit by their folly and have grown rich upon it.
* About sixty-three pounds sterling.
'Yes, I have grown rich, and yet I cannot stop.

I love the money that is power; but more than all, I love the way of life.

Talk of romances and adventure! What romance or adventure is half so wonderful as those that come daily to my notice?
And I play a part in every one of them, and none the less a leading part because I do not shout and strut upon the boards.' 'If all this is so, why do you seek the help of an unknown lad, a stranger of whom you know nothing ?' I asked bluntly.
'Truly, you lack experience,' the old man answered with a laugh.