 In "The Gem Collector", an earlier version of the story, Sir James Willoughby Pitt, Bart, is an Englishman, expelled from Eton, who turns to crime in America, inherits a baronetcy, and later a fortune from his estranged uncle.Droopy son of George Alexander Pyke, Lord Tilbury, Oxford-educated, poetry-loving Roderick is too much of an intellectual to please his father's ruthless business mind.A cowardly man, in "Bill the Conqueror" he develops a fear of bookies attacking him, to get revenge for articles written for "Society Spice" by his subordinate, the slimy Percy Pilbeam.