The Great Gates of Bronze

"My father's gold has fled from me, and I am in much fear lest my own do the same," he says. He again faced his father. "I have told thee of the depth of poverty and despair to which my inexperience brought me." But there is no chain of disasters that will not come to an end,. Mine came when I secured employment, managing a crew of slaves working upon the new outer wall of the city".