CHAPTER V

GIVETH SOME DESCRIPTION OF A ROMAN AND A PARENT Mr. Chisholm rang the electric bell at his elbow and frowned. Wilbur Chisholm, fifty years of age, vigorous, imperious, a potent factor in the world of men and things, whose power reached across continents and seas, scowled grimly at the marble head of the Emperor Vespasian that scowled as grimly back at him from its pedestal beside his great desk; and it was to be remarked (and duly noted) that the marble head of this long-dead Roman was strangely like the head of th…