Gilbert Storm and Robert Grimsby were partners in a piece of mining property of undetermined value. For Grimsby, who had invested his entire fortune in the enterprise the success or failure of the mine was almost a question of life and death. Storm, a stern, hard man, was not so heavily involved. When the assayer engaged in an estimate of the mine’s value brought his final report to Storm’s office. Storm learned that the mine, instead of being the moderately good investment he had anticipated, was, in fact, a property of incredible richness. In the excitement of the moment, he found time to regret bitterly the fact that Grimsby’s holdings in the mine were considerably larger than his own. A statue of the Winged Victory stood in the room just above Storm’s desk. Storm glanced at it, and immediately decided upon his course of action. Driven headlong by the idols that possessed his being, he gave the assayer five thousand dollars to prepare a false report which showed that the mine was practically worthless. Dazed and crushed by the terrible news, Grimsby accepted Storm’s kind words of condolence, and the meagre check, which the generous Storm gave him for his worthless stock. Then Grimsby stumbled out of the house, and started downward along the road to utter ruin. One day, Gilbert Storm’s wife discovered the two assay reports in his desk, and confronting her husband, demanded that he make restitution. Storm, flushed with the pride of his growing power in politics, sternly refused. A moment later he went out on the balcony of their house to address the enthusiastic band of voters come to welcome their latest and most popular candidate for office. In the midst of his speech, Mrs. Storm appeared on the balcony, and told the voters that Storm had robbed his partner. Storm, with his wonderful magnetism succeeded in convincing the crowd that it was all a mistake, after the hysterical woman had been removed. That is, all but one, Robert Grimsby. That evening, Grimsby crept into Storm’s study and tried to kill the man who had ruined him. He was interrupted by the appearance of Mrs. Storm and the family doctor. The badly beaten Storm was forced to give up the money that was Grimsby’s by right, and with his wife’s arms about him, resolved to renounce his unrighteous gods.