A little regular reading in my rooms, and there
you are! My great grandfather was too poor a trader to succeed
in pelts, so he invested a little money in rocky pastures around
upper Manhattan: this has kept the clerks of the family bankers
busy ever since. I am an optimistic vagabond, enjoying life in
the observation of the rather ludicrous busyness of other folk.
In short, Doctor, I am a corpulent Hamlet, essentially modern in
my cultivation of a joy in life, debating the eternal question
with myself, but lazily leaving it to others to solve. Therein I
am true to my type."
"Pardon my bluntness," observed MacDonald, watching him through
partially closed eyes. "You are not telling the truth. You are
a busy man, with definite work, but that is no affair of mine. I
recognize in you a different calibre from that of these rich
young idlers in Howard's class. I am going to take you into my
confidence, for you understand the need for secrecy, and will
surely help in every way--noblesse oblige.
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