Overview

A master builder, comes to be the most successful builder in his home town by a fortunate series of coincidences. He had previously conceived these in his mind, powerfully wished for them to come to pass, but never actually did anything about them. When his wife's ancestral home burned down, from a fire in a clothes cupboard, he had already imagined how he could cause such an accident in the wooden building and then profit from the destruction by dividing the land on which it stood into plots and covering it with homes for sale. From this fortuitous occurrence, and some chance misfortunes of his competitors, he comes to imagine that he only has to wish for something for it to come about.