Watch his features: they are strong and aglow with a great and
wondrous wisdom; mark if you see evil. And remember. Though he is
like you he is something vastly different. He is flesh and blood;
but perhaps the master of one of the greatest laws that man can
attain to. He is the fact and the substance that was promised, but
was not delivered by the professor.
This account has been largely taken from one of the Sunday
editions of our papers. I do not agree with it entirely.
Nevertheless, it will serve as an excellent foundation for my own
adventures; and what is best of all, save labour.
V
FRIENDS
My name is Harry Wendel.
I am an attorney and until recently boasted of a splendid practice
and an excellent prospect for the future. I am still a young man;
I have had a good education and still have friends and admirers.
Such being the case, you no doubt wonder why I give a past
reference to my practice and what the future might have held for
me. Listen:
I might as well start 'way back. I shall do it completely and go
back to the fast-receding time of childhood.
There is a recollection of childish disaster. I had been making
strenuous efforts to pull the tail out of the cat that I might use
it for a feather duster. My desire was supreme logic. I could not
understand objection; the cat resisted for certain utilitarian
reasons of its own and my mother through humane sympathy.
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