Down town Sam took up anew his old friendship and intimacy with Jack
Prince, going with him to clubs and drinking places and often spending
evenings among the clever, money-wasting young men who laughed and made
deals and talked their way through life at Jack's side. Among these young
men a business associate of Jack's caught his attention and in a few weeks
an intimacy had sprung up between Sam and this man.
Maurice Morrison, Sam's new friend, had been discovered by Jack Prince
working as a sub-editor on a country daily down the state. There was, Sam
thought, something of the Caxton dandy, Mike McCarthy, in the man,
combined with prolonged and fervent, although somewhat periodic attacks of
industry. In his youth he had written poetry and at one time had studied
for the ministry, and in Chicago, under Jack Prince, he had developed into
a money maker and led the life of a talented, rather unscrupulous man of
the world. He kept a mistress, often overdrank, and Sam thought him the
most brilliant and convincing talker he had ever heard. As Jack Prince's
assistant he had charge of the Rainey Company's large advertising
expenditure, and the two men being thrown often together a mutual regard
grew up between them.
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