Strong and unyielding--like a rock.

That was the impression Robert Turold had conveyed at their first interview many years before, and his patience and tenacity in pursuit of his purpose had deepened the feeling since.

The object of his search had the lawyer's sympathy.

Mr.Brimsdown had a reverence for titles--inherited titles, not mere knighthoods, or Orders of the British Empire.

For those he felt nothing but contempt.