love they are superbly heedless of consequences. I promised to
tell you something about Jarvis, and I will, since you spoke of
his married life. To begin with, his father and his father's
father were steel-workers. They came from Cornwall before he was
born, and Jarvis grew up in the glare of the Pennsylvania
furnaces. From the time he could walk he never knew anything,
never heard anything except steel. He inherited all the driving
strength of his father and developed such a remarkable business
ability that he became a rolling-mill superintendent almost before
he was of age. They say he never did less than two men's work and
often more; but he could make others work, too, and there lay the
secret of his success. He was indefatigable; he was a machine; he
never rested, nor played, nor relaxed, as other men do. He just
worked; and his mill held the tonnage record for years.

"When the Corporation was formed he played a big part in the deal
and got a big slice of the profits. He had been successful, noted:
at one turn of the wheel he became enormously wealthy. The story
of Alladin is nothing to the story of the men who took part in
that combination. Hammon went into other things than steel, and he
prospered. He never failed at anything. Now, here comes the part
of the story that interests me most of all and will interest you
if you can understand the workings of a man's mind. Jarvis had no
vices and but one hobby--at least his vices were neutral, for he
had never taken time to acquire the positive kind. His hobby was
Napoleon Bonaparte. He read everything there was to read about
Napoleon; he studied his life and patterned his own on similar
lines. His collection of Napoleona is the finest in this country;
he is an authority on French history of that period--in fact, he's
as nearly hipped on the subject as a man of his powers can be