Victor Emmanuel III

Brother Victor had taught my brother, Jeff, the previous year with far greater success.

Victor was the younger son and brother—a tete montee, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break.

Victor was proud of his achievement, and went about recommending it and urging every one to partake of it to excess.

To add point to this success, he knew that the victor of Montebello was straining every nerve to gain this very prize.

Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.

Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.