During his academic course he had been known as an athletic rather than a bookish man, and had left his Alma Mater with an Apollo-like physique.

At the same time he had developed fine literary tastes, and was well informed, even if he had not gone very deeply into the classics and the sciences that were remote from the business career which he had chosen.

After a brief interval of foreign travel he had entered his brother's office, and was schooling his buoyant, pleasure-loving temperament to the routine of trade.

When business hours were over, however, Graydon gave himself up to the gratification of his social tastes.

His vitality and flow of spirits were so immense that wherever he went he always caused a breezy ripple of excitement.