He had received a fine collegiate education, and at his majority stepped into the magnificent fortune his parents had left him.

It took him just one year to run through it, then, penniless, he came from Boston to New York and sought out his poor cousin.

Lester Armstrong succeeded in getting a position for Kendale with the same firm with which he was employed, but at the end of the first week Clinton Kendale threw it up with disgust, declaring that what he had gone through these six days was too much for him.

He had rather die than work.
He borrowed a hundred dollars from his Cousin Lester and suddenly disappeared.

When he was next heard from he blossomed out, astonishing all New York as the handsomest society actor who had ever graced the metropolitan boards, and caused a furore.
There was another great difference between the two cousins, and that was a heart; just one of them possessed it, and that one was Lester Armstrong.
On this particular afternoon Kendale had lain in wait for his cousin at the entrance of Marsh & Co.'s to waylay him when he came from the office.