He was yet a young man; with the start he had secured for himself, and with the exceptional faculties, the faculties of self-confidence and "push" that he knew himself to possess, there was no telling to what position he might attain.

He knew that it was only a question of time--of a short time even--when he would be the practical head of the great firm.

Everything he turned his hand to was a success.

His row of houses in the Mission might be enlarged to a veritable settlement for every workman in the neighbourhood.

His youth, his cleverness, and his ambition, supported by his money on the one hand, and on the other by the vast machinery of the great law firm, could raise him to a great place in the world of men.