Garven Wilsonhulme almost gasped as his prospective father-in-law handed him a check for a huge sum. He could not imagine himself in possession of a sum which would answer his every need until he could start making a handsome living as a brain surgeon. He looked at the gloating expression on his adversary's face-a look of triumph. To the young M.D., it seemed that he had become engaged in a social poker game with, for him, stupendous consequences...