With gold beyond his wildest dreams, despised by his fellow-men, scorned by the women whose lives he had nearly wrecked, and with his own child turning away from his proffered embrace in horror, Jabez Crow looked back over the path he had trod and saw the specters of his misspent life. Obsessed with regret and remorse, he destroyed himself, leaving a will in which he endeavored to make reparation for the wrongs he had committed.
