He was sick of the stock-exchange, anyhow, as a means of livelihood, and now decided that he would leave it once and for all.

He would get in something else--street-railways, land deals, some of the boundless opportunities of the far West.

Philadelphia was no longer pleasing to him.

Though now free and rich, he was still a scandal to the pretenders, and the financial and social world was not prepared to accept him.

He must go his way alone, unaided, or only secretly so, while his quondam friends watched his career from afar.