When he grows up and is found to have exceptional intelligence, Baron Rosnovski asks him to become a companion to his son Leon so Wladek might prove to be a competition to him. Władek Koskiewicz is born in a forest and raised by a trapper family. She hires a detective to find out the truth, and, in a twist, miscarries fatally from the shock-after which Kane ejects Henry from his home. Anonymous notes warn Anne (who has been impregnated by Osborne, a matter which causes William some worry-until he finds out that he can toss Henry out easily without any money) about her husband whose real name is Vitorio Tossana. Henry spends every last penny of Kane's mother's money on the pretext of speculation. William dreams of becoming the chairman of Lester's bank one day. William hates Henry from the beginning and spends most of the time at Harvard and at his best friend Mathew Lester's home.

His mother, Anne, marries Henry Osborne, who turns out to be interested in gambling and women (One of the godparents of William). William displays extraordinary discipline and intelligence as a young man at St. When William was still a child, Richard dies in the Titanic disaster, leaving William fatherless and heir to the Kane & Cabot bank. William follows the steps of his father, Richard Kane, to become a successful banker. William Lowell Kane is a wealthy and powerful elite class while Abel Rosnovski (originally named Władek Koskiewicz) is a Pole who was born in a situation of great poverty and eventually migrated to the United States. They have nothing in common except the same date of birth (18 April 1906) and a zeal to succeed in life. The book tells the stories of two men born worlds apart.

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