KINGSTON BROOKS HAS A VISITOR Kingston Brooks was twenty-five years old, strong, nervous, and with a strenuous desire to make his way so far as was humanly possible into the heart of life.

He was a young solicitor recently established in Medchester, without friends save those he was now making, and absolutely without interest of any sort.

He had a small capital, and already the beginnings of a practice.

He had some sort of a reputation as a speaker, and was well spoken of by those who had entrusted business to him.

Yet he was still fighting for a living when this piece of luck had befallen him.