The lion's share

A weary colonel returning from the Philippines finds himself drawn into a grim scene at a Harvard dormitory, where a promising young student lies dead amid shattered glass and spilled liquor. The abrupt gunshot and the frantic scramble that follows reveal a tangled web of reckless gambling, family pressure, and the dark side of Wall Street’s allure. As the officer pieces together the fragments—a broken bottle, a blood‑stained newspaper, and whispered accusations of “stock pirates”—the tragedy hints at deeper forces shaping the lives of privileged youth.

Through the colonel’s eyes, the story unfolds as a stark portrait of ambition and vulnerability, set against the cold corridors of academia and the restless pulse of early‑20th‑century finance. Listeners will be pulled into a world where honor, desperation, and the weight of inherited expectations collide, leaving a haunting question: how far will one go to protect—or betray—their own?