What can happen to a man in such a condition better than to turn up as a hunter among the Rocky Mountains or as a gold-digger in Australia?
In this last adventure he seems to have plunged horribly, and to have lost over three thousand pounds.

You wouldn't have paid that for him ?" "Not again;--certainly not again." "Then what could he do better than disappear?
I suppose I shall have to make him an allowance some of these days, and if he can live and keep himself dark I will do so." There was in this a tacit allusion to his father's speedy death which was grim enough; but the father passed it by without any expression of displeasure.

He certainly owed much to his younger son, and was willing to pay it by quiescence.

Let them both forbear.

Such was the language which he held to himself in thinking of his younger son.