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Dr Lavendar had gone away uneasy and puzzled Why didn't she live

with her brother? Family differences no doubt Curious how faether," the solitary

old ht; "and they are not necessarily bad folk who quarrel

Look at Saold But it's in the

blood there," he said to hi

Sa bad about hi worse than an unexpectedness that had provided Old Chester

with smiles for many years "No; he is not bad; I have seen to

that," his father used to say "He's hardly been out of ht

twenty-four hours at a tie

with all its te else!" And

certainly Saood too Everybody in Old Chester said

so He said so hi hich to

reproach myself," he used to tell his wife ponderously in"I have done my duty I always domy duty now by Sam"

This hen he and his son fell out on one point or another, as they

had begun to do as soon as young Sam learned to talk; and all because

the father insisted upon furnishing the boy with his ownthe lad