I looked right and left, crossed the tiny lawn, peered all about, but still saw nothing at all resembling what I sought.
"As it began to dawn on me that all my hopes had been duped, my journey vain, and my father's words an empty cheat, a sickening despair got hold of me.

My knees shook together, and big drops of sweat gathered on my forehead.

I roused myself and searched again; again I was baffled.

Distractedly I beat the bushes round and round the tiny lawn, then flung myself down on the turf and gave way to my despair.

To this, then, it had all come; this was the end for which I had abandoned my wife and child; this the treasure that had dangled so long before my eyes.