He went down to Mexico, with a million or two of his own money got honestly by an undisputed will from an undisputed father--you don't understand that, but it doesn't matter--and with a few millions of other people's money, for to gamble in mines and railways and banks and steamship companies--all to do with Mexico what the Saadat has tried to do in Egypt with less money; but not for the love of Allah, same as him.

This American was going to conquer like Cortez, but his name was Thomas Tilman Lacey, and he had a lot of gall.

After years of earnest effort, he lost his hair and the millions of the Infatuated Conquistadores.

And by-and-by he came to Cairo with a thimbleful of income, and began to live again.

There was a civil war going on in his own country, but he thought that one out of forty millions would not be strictly missed.