money.
That is part of what my riches have cost me, though not all.

"I have a brother, and when we were young our hearts were as one. He
was gentle and thoughtful, while I was rough and impetuous. My one
object was to make money for self, his, to assist others. Once I loved
him as my own soul. But gold got into my heart and changed everything.
I became a machine, nay, more, a brutal thinking machine, with gold as
the one object in life.

"All natural affections died in me, and I think I would have betrayed
my parents for gold, but thank God they were beyond my power. My only
brother, Henry, however, was not, and him I betrayed, deceived and
ruined. All that he had became mine, and I considered it shrewd
business. He left England and I was glad that he was out of my sight.
I have never seen him since, but I have kept track of him.

"Had my brother cursed me when I robbed him, it would have been easier
for me in after years. But he reproached me not, except with his eyes,
and the look that he gave me as we parted has haunted me ever since. I
tried to forget what I had done to him, and plunged deeply into
business. But all in vain. I could not banish the wrong I had
committed, and my brother's face with the reproachful eyes was ever
before me day and night.

"At last I could endure it no longer, and so resolved to make what
amends I could. I found out where my brother was living, wrote to him,
and sent him a considerable sum of money. He returned it, and that
made me angry. But I knew that my brother was right, and I also
learned that he would starve rather than accept a penny from me or help
in any form.

"For several years I made no further attempt to assist him. But the
remorse gnawing at my soul could not be silenced. I reasoned that I
had done what I could to rectify my wrong, but that gave me no peace.
Finally I resolved that I would help him in such a manner that he
should never know that I had anything to do with it. I knew that he
was living in Eastern Canada, but just where I was uncertain.

"After weeks of careful consideration I made arrangements that all that
I possess should go to my brother Henry after my death. In the
meantime I planned with my solicitors that a man of exceptional ability
and unimpeachable character and integrity should be sent to Canada,
backed with sufficient money, to find my brother and to devise some
means of assisting him, and carrying out his every legitimat