"It started out by accident about four years ago." he began. "I was doing some research after reading an article in the newspaper." He pulled a small, yellowed newspaper clipping from his pocket. The headline read: Mystery Buyer Purchases Earldom for $700,000. I glanced over the article. It pretty much gave the dry facts of my acquisition of the Earldom of Arran. Everything except my identity, which I’d had them keep quiet.