And there was another, a great traction king, who kept mistresses in Chicago and Paris and London, as well as in New York; he had one just around the corner from his palatial home, and had an underground passage leading to it. And the Major told with glee how he had shown this to a friend, and the latter had remarked, "I'm too stout to get through there."—"Iknow it," replied the other, "else I shouldn't have told you!"
And so it went. One of the richest men in New York was a s****l degenerate, with half a dozen women on his hands all the time; he would send them cheques, and they would use these to blackmailhim. This man's young wife had been shut up in a closet for twenty-four hours by her mother to compel her to marry him.—And then there was the charming tale of how he had gone away upo
