When Trudy arrives at the townhouse, Jim concludes that she is a thief, but lets her stay. He receives word that his daughter Trudy has run away from her finishing school. Currently, O'Connor is preparing to buy Camp Kilson, a deserted army camp outside Manhattan, in order to build a massive air cargo network. McKeever, or "Mac." Mac invites Jim to stay with him at O'Connor's townhouse, which he has occupied for the last three winters while O'Connor resides in Virginia, and Jim assumes that Mac is O'Connor. He is eventually thrown out, and while sleeping on a park bench, meets the drifter, Aloysious T. One of his tenants, Jim Bullock, an out-of-work veteran, refuses to leave. Meanwhile, O'Connor evicts the tenants of one of his city apartment houses in order to erect an eighty story building. As the bus passes, a middle-aged drifter and his dog Sam enter the O'Connor house through a loose board in the fence and a manhole, and spend the night. On New York City's Fifth Avenue, the "richest avenue in the world," a tour bus announcer points out the boarded-up townhouse of "industrial wizard" Michael O'Connor, the world's second richest man.
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