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s for hi-out had become chronic No doubt it was in the blood, as Dr

Lavendar said Some thirty years before, Saiven to writing verses, had fallen

out with his father, old Benjaht; fallen out so finally that

in all these years since, the two men, father and son, had not spoken

one word to each other If anybody ht have been supposed to know

the cause of that thirty-year-old feud it was Dr Lavendar He

certainly saw the beginning of it

One storht, then twenty-four years old,

knocked at the Rectory door; Dr Lavendar, shielding his lamp from the

ith one hand, opened it himself

"Why, Sam, my boy," he said and stopped abruptly He led the way into

his study and put the la is the

matter?"

"Yes"

"What is it, Samuel?"