But for the unjust disinheritance of his father, he would have been heir to a vast property; and through all his youth, this had been the golden mirage that had floated before his vision--this had been the fabled country from which his castle rose.
Steadily, unfalteringly, one idea had expanded in his mind.

By some brave action--by some deed of heroism--he was to win back the lost inheritance.
"Time passed.

And with its passage the wheel of fate revolved.

By one of those strange chances for which no man can account, the opportunity that the boy longed for fell across his path.
"It came.

But it came enveloped in no cloud of glory.