Never did he waver: never did he deflect from his course.

He knew no path save the direct one that led straight to success, and, through his eyes, he made Bok see it with equal clarity until Bok wondered why others could not see it.

But they could not.

Cyrus Curtis would never be able, they said, to come out from under the load he had piled up.

Where they differed from Mr.
Curtis was in their lack of vision: they could not see what he saw! It has been said that Mr.Curtis banished patent-medicine advertisements from his magazine only when he could afford to do so.
That is not true, as a simple incident will show.