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_E. Vinton Blake_
Five feet eleven of vigorous, well-fed, clean-shaven humanity, a little / past the middle age, enveloped in a fur-lined overcoat, and carrying / a handsome dress-suit case; this was John James Alston of New York, / a hard-headed, hard-hearted old bachelor, with no kith or kin in the / world, that he knew. There might be a few distant cousins or so, / somewhere out Connecticut way; he didn't know or care. He had worked / his way in the world himself, and made a moderate fortune, and knew how / to take care of it. What more did a man want? [8]