CHAPTER I.
BRIAN REBELS "You needn't repeat it," said Brian with a flash of his quiet eyes.
"This time, Kenny, I mean to stay disinherited." Kennicott O'Neill stared at his son and gasped.

The note of permanency in the chronic rite of disinheritance was startling.

So was something in the set of Brian's chin and the flush of anger burning steadily beneath the dark of his skin.

Moreover, his eyes, warmly Irish like his father's, and ordinarily humorous and kind, remained unflinchingly aggressive.
With the air of an outraged emperor, the older man strode across the studio and rapped upon his neighbor's wall for arbitration.
"Garry may be in bed," said Brian, "And he may not." It was much the same to Kenny.
He was a splendid figure--that Irishman.

His gorgeous Persian slippers curled at the toes and ended in a pair of scarlet heels.