ust follow it. He has suffered
ostracism because of it, and has followed his vision in spite
of abuse and ridicule. Physically, a well-built, powerful man.
Strong-featured rather than handsome. Very much in earnest, and,
despite his university training, a trifle awkward in carriage and
demeanor, lacking in social ease. He has been elected to Congress
on a reform ticket, and is almost alone in fight he is making.
He has no party to back him, though he has a following of a few
independents and insurgents.

Thomas Chalmers. Forty-five to fifty years of age. Iron-gray
mustache. Slightly stout. A good liver, much given to Scotch
and soda, with a weak heart. Is liable to collapse any time. If
anything, slightly lazy or lethargic in his emotional life.
One of the "owned" senators representing a decadent New England
state, himself master of the state political machine. Also, he is
nobody's fool. He possesses the brain and strength of
character to play his part. His most distinctive feature is his
temperamental opportunism.

Master Thomas Chalmers. Six years of age. Sturdy and healthy
despite his grandmother's belief to the contrary.

Ellery Jackson Hubbard. Thirty-eight to forty years of age.
Smooth-shaven. A star journalist with a national reputation; a
large, heavy-set man, with large head, large hands--everything
about him is large. A man radiating prosperity, optimism
and selfishness. Has no morality whatever. Is a conscious
individualist, cold-blooded, pitiless, working only for himself,
and believing in nothing but himself.

Anthony Starkweather. An elderly, well preserved gentleman,
slenderly built, showing all the signs of a man who has lived
clean and has been almost an ascetic. One to whom the joys of the
flesh have had little meaning. A cold, controlled man whose one
passion is for power. Distinctively a man of power. An eagle-like
man, who, by keenness of brain and force of character, has carved
out a fortune of hundreds of millions. In short, an industrial
and financial magnate of the first water and of the finest type
to be found in the United States. Essentially a moral man,
his rigid New England morality has suffered a sea change and
developed into the morality of the master-man of affairs, equally
rigid, equally uncompromising, but essentially Jesuitical in
that he believes in doing wrong that right may come of it. He
is absolutely certain that civilization and progress rest on his
shoulders and upon th