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This is the story of a southern farm boy, reared in the dark days of Reconstruction, who became a pioneer of modern merchandising in the South and built a small country store into a huge mercantile group of over 350 establishments that now do a business of more than a hundred million dollars a year. William Henry Belk was a child of less than three when his father was killed, a victim of Sherman's raiders in the last months of the Civil War; at the age of fourteen he got his first job in a store in Monroe, North Carolina; and at the age of twenty-six he had started his own business, a...

The capricious flame spattered darts of thin yellow light on walls and floor as the doors swung gently closed. Claudia turned from her tall, deeply tanned, uniformed escort to address the servant who had let them in. -I won't be needing you tonight, Tullia. You may go now. But wait ... before you leave, we shan't be wanting all these lamps. Put out all but that one--she pointed--and then you may go to bed. Poor thing, I know you're tired.- She peered beyond the wide archway opening onto the peristylium. -I see you left a lamp burning in my bedroom. Good. Well, then, just put these others out....