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He was a true soldier of fortune In the ten years which his business

career covered be had engaged in a score of business ventures He had

lost two fortunes Born in the West, educated in the East, he had

flashed from coast to coast so often that he hied

He was the adon and the criterion

of his friend Billy Fairfax, who had trailed his e and hen the Brian Boru went doas acco him on

histrip in the interests of a

-picture company Socially they made an excellent tea, and position to augment Honey's

initiative, enterprise, audacity, and char On his physical side, he was shapelessly

strong and hopelessly ugly, a big, shock-headed blond On his personal

side "irl put it, "too ularly

Billy Fairfax was not, however, without char kind; and he was not without his own distinction His huge

fortune had per tastes His studs and kennels and strings of polo ponies were

fae and an aviator not

far below it

Pete Murphy, the fifth of the group, was the delight of thee of a lion, er under; a disposition fiery,to Billy Fairfax's dictum, of "wire and brass