Midden

Timothy Brights doesn''t exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can''t understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as Lloyds'' Names no longer want to talk to him.

When gambling fails, Timothy turns to embezzlement, but it''s the lesser offence of helping himself to some strangely aromatic tobacco that propels him...