Fate Knocks at the Door

A ship's cook who has wandered the East inherits his captain's fortune on a Spanish-American island, comes to New York, and finds he does not want it — and a painter, a mystic and a dying man complicate the giving of it away. Comfort served in the Spanish-American War and reported the fighting in the Philippines and the Russo-Japanese War before he was thirty, came home unable to stomach any of it...