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"Certainly," said Siward curiously

"Then, first of all, he is a sentimentalist"

"Oh! oh!" jeered Siward

"A sentimentalist of the weakest type," continued Plank obstinately; "because he sentimentalises over himself Siward, look out for the man with elaborate whiskers! Look out for a pallid man with eccentric hair and a silky beard! He's a sentimentalist of the sort I told you, and is usually utterly res omen I suppose you thinkwo He is a sensualist," insisted Plank

"Oh, no, Plank--not that!"

"A sensualist His sentimental vanity he lavishes upon himself--the animal in him on women His caution, born of self-consideration, is the caution of a beast Such men as he believe they live in the focus of a million eyes Part of his vanity is to deceive those eyes and be what he is under the mask he wears; and to do that one must be the very master of caution That is Quarrier's vanity To conceal, is his monomania"

"I cannot see how you draw that conclusion"

"Siward, he is a bad man, and crafty--every inch of him"

"Oh, co qualities You never heard of anybody in real life being entirely bad"

"No, I didn't; and Quarrier isn't For example, he is kind to valuable animals--I mean, his own"

"Good to anihed Siward "I'ood to?"

"Everybody knows that he hasn't a poor relation left; not one He is loyal to them in a rare way; he filled one subsidiary company full of them It is knon as the 'Home for Destitute Nephews'"

"Seriously, Plank, the ood in him"

"Because of your theory?"

"Yes I believe that nobody is entirely bad So do the great ood son to his father That is perfectly true--kind, considerate, dutiful, loyal The financial world is perfectly aware that Stanley Quarrier is to-day the most unscrupulous old scoundrel who ever crushed a refinery or debauched a railroad! and his son no more believes it than he credits the scandalous history of the Red Woements for that chapel Quarrier came to me, very much perturbed, because he understood that all the ed for, and he had desired to build one to the memory of his father! His father! Isn't it awful to think of!--a chapel to the islatures, the cynical defier of law!--this hoary old thief, who beggared theand stripped the orphan, and whose only reat unpunished criminal, was that sinister little predecessor of his, who drea the executive of these United States!"