After Harris commits suicide and leaves a written confession detailing Jim's bribe, Jim is prosecuted. Jim remains watching over Pop through two sleepless nights as Pop recovers. At the Inferno, a cave-in occurs, and Jim rescues Pop. Betty then sees Harris accept an envelope of money. After Harris, a building inspector, tells Jim that the Inferno is unsafe and needs to be rebuilt, Jim threatens to see that Harris loses his job if he insists on his opinion. Upset because Jim's casino will promote gambling and vice, Pop tells Jim that they are drifting apart. Soon, Jim expands his empire and plans an extravagant casino on the high seas to cater to the pleasures of the rich. At the opening of the new spectacular inferno, Pop, dressed as Virgil, guides patrons through Dante's nine cycles, but he is interrupted when Dean, whose wife died that day, jumps to his death. Jim soon marries Betty and plans to build a new show, which he describes as the biggest 'hell on earth.' After a son Alex, called Sonny, is born, Jim convinces the other concessionaires to invest in a larger 'Inferno,' but when Dean, the 'chute-the-chutes' owner, refuses to give up his prime location for the new concern, Jim purchases Dean's lease and proceeds to ruthlessly wreck Dean's concession, despite Dean's pleas for him to wait one month so that he could raise enough money to move. Pop has idealistically devised the show to present to customers a 'glimpse of hell' with metaphoric suggestions on how to get out, but it does not attract many customers until Jim tries the role of barker and by playing up the sensational aspects produces a sellout, to the delight of Pop and his niece Betty, who sells tickets. The show includes statues of Cleopatra, Dante, Salome, Virgil, Marc Antony and Alexander the Great, after whom Jim fancies himself. After Jim fails to last as a target in blackface at a sideshow for baseball pitches in a carnival, Pop McWade, owner of the carnival show 'Dante's Inferno,' offers him a job cleaning up the place.

Jim Carter, a stoker on a luxury liner, loses his job after he reveals that he has faked a broken arm, and he vows to those wealthy people looking down on him in the stoke hole and laughing that someday he will be where they are.

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