A difference of only a few feet in elevation seems, strangely, to give her a much more rarefied air.

Her proudest boast is that she has a larger number of millionaires in proportion to her population than any other city in the land.
It was these peculiar and well-known advantages of Fairlands that led the young man of my story to select it as the starting point of his worthy ambition.

And Fairlands is a good place for one so richly endowed with an inheritance that cannot be expressed in dollars to try his strength.

Given such a community, amid such surroundings, with a man like the young man of my story, and something may be depended upon to happen.
While the travelers from the East, bound for Fairlands, were waiting at the Junction for the local train that would take them through the orange groves to their journey's end, the young man noticed the woman of the observation car platform with her two companions.

And now, as he paced to and fro, enjoying the exercise after the days of confinement in the Pullman, he observed them with stimulated interest--they, too, were going to Fairlands.
The man of the party, though certainly not old in years, was frightfully aged by dissipation and disease.