WITH FRONTISPIECE
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1913
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1912,
By THE FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY.
Copyright, 1913,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1913.
FERRIS PRINTING COMPANY
NEW YORK. N. Y., U.S.A.
PART I: FORTUNE
I
It was dusk of an April day, and Fifth Avenue was crowded. A young man, who had emerged from a large hotel, stood in the stream of traffic and gazed irresolutely up and down the thoroughfare. He wore a long, cheap rain-coat, and his head was covered by a steamer-cap of an old design, with two flaps tied in a knot across the top, behind which an overabundant crop of dull black hair pushed forth.