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with that girl, and his mind of the San Tome Concession.He added that he would have to leave her for a few days tofind an American, a man from San Francisco, who was stillsomewhere in Europe. A few months before he had madehis acquaintance in an old historic German town, situatedin a mining district. The American had his womankindwith him, but seemed lonely while they were sketching allday long the old doorways and the turreted corners of themediaeval houses. Charles Gould had with him the inseparablecompanionship of the mine. The other man wasinterested in mining enterprises, knew something of Costaguana,and was no stranger to the name of Gould. They hadtalked together with some intimacy which was made possibleby the difference of their ages. Charles wanted now tofind that capitalist of shrewd mind and accessible character.His father’s fortune in Costaguana, which he had supposedto be still considerable, seemed to have melted in the rascallycrucible of revolutions. Apart from some ten thousandpounds deposited in England, there appeared to be nothingleft except the house in Sulaco, a vague right of forest exploitationin a remote and savage district, and the San TomeConcession, which had attended his poor father to the verybrink of the grave.He explained those things. It was late when they parted.She had never before given him such a fascinating visionof herself. All the eagerness of youth for a strange life, forgreat distances, for a future in which there was an air ofadventure, of combat—a subtle thought of redress and conquest,had filled her with an intense excitement, which she