Serial Sunday: The Renaissance Man and the Strange New World, Part IX

By Ryan Fleming. Frank Slate was practically giddy to have the famed Renaissance Man, Charles Chance, on the business end of his revolver. He had never cared much for the do-gooder or his ilk that the press and swell types fawned over. Even at his end of society the sheer number of people inclined to like him annoyed Slate. Who would they regard as the more impressive figure now, he wondered. The…