By David Graham Phillips
Author of “Golden Fleece.”
THE MASTER ROGUE
A STUDY in the tyranny of wealth. James
Galloway founds his fortune on a fraud. He
ruins the man who has befriended him and steals
away his business. Vast railroad operations next
claim his attention. He becomes a bird of prey
in the financial world. One by one he forsakes
his principles; he becomes a hypocrite, posing,
even to himself. With the degeneration of his
moral character come domestic troubles. His
wife grows to despise him. One of his sons
becomes a spendthrift; the other a forger. His
daughter, Helen, alone retains any affection for
him. His attempts to force his family into the
most exclusive circles subject him and them to
mortifying rebuffs, for all his millions cannot
overcome the ill-repute of his name. At last, with his
hundred millions won, his house the finest in
America, his name a name to conjure with in the
financial world, he realizes that the goal he has
reached was not worth the race. Still he clings
to his old ways, and dies in a fit of anger, haggling
over his daughter's dowry.
$1.50.
McClure, Phillips & Co.
