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Dalhousie resumed his labor, and, convinced by his wife's reasoning, he
labored more moderately. While he toils at this apparently hopelessly
task, we will return to the night when we left him in the library, after
having obtained possession of the secret packet.
The overseer, after leaving the library, was perplexed to determine his
future course. He was in possession of a mighty secret, a secret which
involved his employer's very existence. The realization of a thousand
golden dreams was at hand, and he was resolved, without an over-nice
balancing of conscientious scruples, to make the most of the information
he had obtained. There were two methods of procedure open to him, and
his perplexity was occasioned by this fact. In this instance his
resolution was not at fault, for the reins were in his own hands. It was
not like hewing a path through the granite barriers of difficulty,
against the very frown of destiny. He imagined that some overruling
power had made the path, and invited him to walk in it.
Should he make his fortune by means of the uncle or the niece? The
question of his existence had narrowed itself down to this point.
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