114 COURTESY. 



ceeded on our journey, and he said not a 

 word in disparagement of my decision. 



I mention this simple act of courtesy 

 as indicative of a mind fraught with a 

 proper and just understanding of things 

 of far greater moment. When such con- 

 duct is considered in contradistinction to 

 the pertinacious and selfish adherence to 

 what the law awards as right, the in- 

 dividual is placed in a very estimable 

 point of view ; for where one such in- 

 cident as I have spoken of occurs, 

 under similar circumstances, the usual 

 penalty has been exacted by ninety-nine 

 others. 



But the reader is not to suppose that I 

 was always accompanied by men of such 

 standing, or of such correct views ; on 

 the contrary, I have had them of a 

 widely different nature, though it was 

 not their custom to make an exhibition 

 of their evil ways. I had, however, one 



