Tracy in several
ways, and though he felt a little uneasiness in the matter
attributed it to the morbid state of his own mind.
"With a wider field I can do something," murmured the lawyer, as he
gathered up the loose sheets of paper lying around and threw them
into the waste basket.
But Phillip Lawson only saw one side of the proceeding--the
alluring, tempting side.
There was, indeed, a complication of schemes already concocted, and
each one was to follow in a well conceived and nicely arranged
order--"a wheel within a wheel," as Hubert Tracy coolly expressed
himself.
Perhaps no more diabolical scheme could have been more cleverly
planned to ruin the character of a fellow-being. But it is ever
thus, and shall be until the arch fiend, who first plotted in the
Amaranthine bowers of Eden, shall be cast out forever beyond the
reach of mortal ear.
Had Phillip Lawson now received the timely warning of one kind
friend--but there was none to warn. If he asked the advice of some
older members of the profession, the answer invariably was: "Try it,
my boy, if you think you will succeed." So the outcome of it all was
that the young man had made up his mind to try it, and, after a long
conversation with Hubert Tracy, resolved to inform Mr.
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