Only the lawless Gilroy had good-humoredly declined.

The quiet acceptance of the others did not, unfortunately, preclude their settled belief that Clarence had participated in the fraud, and that even now his restitution was making a dangerous precedent, subversive of the best interests of the State, and discouraging to immigration.

Some doubted his sanity.

Only one, struck with the sincerity of his motive, hesitated to take his money, with a look of commiseration on his face.
"Are you not satisfied ?" asked Clarence, smiling.
"Yes, but"-- "But what ?" "Nothin'.

Only I was thinkin' that a man like you must feel awful lonesome in Calforny!" Lonely he was, indeed; but his loneliness was not the loss of fortune nor what it might bring.