But there was one thing Mr.Conger did understand and care for, and that was success.

He was a man of medium hight, burly, active, ever in motion.

When he had ever been still long enough to read law, nobody knew.

He said everything he had to say with a quick, vehement utterance, as though he grudged the time taken to speak fully about anything.

He went along the street eagerly; he wrote with all his might.