Cooley Paradene
Hardworking Paradene built up a considerable fortune with his Paradene Pulp and Paper Company, and happily spent much of it building up his impressive collection of rare books, a hobby he shares with his good friend Sinclair Hammond. He was for a time generous to the gaggle of spongers making up his family, the only one of whom he ever had any affection for being Bill West. He changes his mind on family matters, however, when he meets Professor Appleby on a train and hears his theories on eugenics. Disowning his family, he adopts the awful Horace, in Bill the Conqueror.
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