He perceived the obvious fact that the way to make money at the law is to have money-makers for clients, but he had no acquaintances with financiers and had no reason to advance to himself why he should ever hope to receive any business from such.

Reading one day that a certain young attorney he knew had received a large retainer for bringing an injunction in an important railroad matter, it occurred to him that, after all, it was merely chance and nothing else that had sent the business to the other instead of to himself.

"If I'd only known Morgan H.Rogers I might have had the job myself," thought he.
So he pondered deeply over how he could get to know Mr.Morgan H.
Rogers and at least conceived the idea of pretending that he had a client who--without disclosing his name for the time being-- desired to create a trust for the benefit of a charity in which the railroad magnate was much interested.

With this excuse he found no difficulty in securing an interview and making an agreeable impression.

The next step was more difficult.
Finally, having learned through a clerk in the banker's office with whom he had cultivated an acquaintance that Mr.Morgan H.Rogers was going to Boston at a certain hour that very afternoon, he donned his best funeral suit and boarded the same train himself.