Don Horacio 



with pride, a contemporary scholar 

 and youthful companion of his life- 

 long friend Edward Everett Hale. 



When he grew to manhood he 

 drifted westward and, after a brief 

 stay in St. Louis, landed, not far be- 

 hind the earliest gold-seeking pio- 

 neers, in California, where, in the 

 city of San Francisco, he lived fifty 

 years and lately died. At the be- 

 ginning- of his career there he ac- 

 tively engaged with a business partner 

 in commercial affairs, so-called, con- 

 sisting mainly in very speculative 

 ventures in the merchandise market, 

 such, for example, as "corners" in 

 whiskey, tobacco, turpentine, oatmeal 

 or macaroni, or in any of the many 

 contemporary equivalents of Colonel 

 Sellers's eyewater, all of which, with 

 occasional success and ultimate fail- 

 ure, seem to have left him, at last, 

 rich only in pleasing illusions of 

 prospective fortune, the memories 



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