"Captain John Sommers joined his brother and sister in the library, "Do you remember Jacob Todd? -The cad who defrauded us with that yarn about missions in Tierra del Fuego? asked Jeremy Sommers. -The same... He changed his name. Now he calls himself Jacob Freemont, and he's a newspaperman in San Francisco. -Egad! So it is true that in the United States any scoundrel may begin a new life? -Jacob Todd paid for his offense several times over. I think it is splendid that there is a country where a man can have a second chance."