3/15 Money, and a great deal of it, was needed for the search, in the first instance, of the unbroken line of descent, and for the maintenance of the title afterwards if the claim was completely established. But Robert Turold was not to be deterred by obstacles, however great. He was a man with a single idea, and such men are hard to baulk in the long run. His family understood that he had gone to seek a fortune in the wilds of the earth. He reappeared--a saturnine silent man--as suddenly as he had gone away. |