He had heard that the timber around Lake Bigler(Tahoe) promised vast wealth which could be had for the asking. This young man's name was Francis Bret Harte, originally from Albany,later a miner and school-teacher on the Stanislaus, still later acompositor, finally a contributor, on the Golden Era. at to be shut up with aWebster's spelling-book and a cross old maid was more than human naturecould bear. Sethos's face softened a trifle as he looked at the little boy.
Within ten days he reported that he had finishedthree of the papers, and had begun the fourth. Women-mothers-couldn't help making such comparisons, he supposed. That's all we need. The final draft thatwould embitter his years was added the sixth night after the accident--the night that Henry died.
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