The Great Gilmore, founder of the fashionable cult of Purified Thought, having set his trap for money, used money as a lure. Everything in his office was genuine—that is to say, everything but the man himself. Dr. Buchanan Gilmore—doubters might see his diploma displayed in the waiting-room—believed in a "good front" as firmly as he believed in the great truth that for every fleecy lamb born into this world the shears are appointed and the time set.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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