Hope begins to suffer from an aortic aneurysm, causing him to leave the mountains to earn money and recuperate. When he returns several years later, he learns that Drebber and Stangerson have fled Salt Lake City after a schism between the Mormons. Hope searches the United States, eventually tracking them to Cleveland; Drebber has Hope arrested as an old rival in love; released from jail, Hope finds that the pair then flees to Europe, where for a month he stays on their trail (St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Paris), eventually landing in London.