Our puzzle source is from Mark Twain's Roughing It. It does start out intriguingly. I may add it to my lists of Classics to read this year. Click to enlarge.
Roughing It by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory—an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor’s absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of “Mr. Secretary,” gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother. I coveted his distinction and his financial splendor, but particularly and especially the long, strange journey he was going to make, and the curious new world he was going to explore. He was going to travel!
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3177/3177-h/3177-h.htm#link161
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