CHAPTER the Ninth.
Dr.Norvin Green--Joseph Pulitzer--Chester A.Arthur--General Grant--The Case of Fitz-John Porter I Truth we are told is stranger than fiction.

I have found it so in the knowledge which has variously come to me of many interesting men and women.

Of these Dr.Norvin Green was a striking example.

To have sprung from humble parentage in the wilds of Kentucky and to die at the head of the most potential corporation in the world--to have held this place against all comers by force of abilities deemed indispensable to its welfare--to have gone the while his ain gait, disdaining the precepts of Doctor Franklin--who, by the way, did not trouble overmuch to follow them himself--seems so unusual as to rival the most stirring stories of the novel mongers.
When I first met Doctor Green he was president of a Kentucky railway company.

He had been, however, one of the organizers of the Western Union Telegraph Company.