ABOUT BOOK

The story of a young politician in England, filled with wine, in the silly season makes a bet with three others in a London club that he can woo and win any woman in society they may name. They "take him up," and he starts on his errand. He falls desperately in love with the woman, and just on his wedding-day his bride-to-be hears of the bet and refuses him. He goes fiercely into politics, and his old enemy, drink, conquers him. He dies to all former life and friends, but after many years returns, every inch a man; and of course the rest of the bright story is easy to guess, and makes pleasant reading.