


He travels to Mexico with his children and visits the Aztec ruins. Money seems to flow again, and things started getting better for Mandus. He views his machine as a work-in-progress: "What are these two arms compared to the multitude that can be applied, without pay, without tire, by adapting the mechanisms we find in the looms and the mills?" At this point, he has no evil intentions. He gets into debt, and expects lawyers to knock on his door at any time. He invests all his money into buying a meat factory, but because the technology he was using wasn't understood well by the general populace, the banks refuse him credit. His wife died from child-labor complications years before, something he holds deep regret over.

The details explained here are set in their chronological order, following the dates provided by the different journals notes.
