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Years ago Dr Lavendar had given up trying to reconcile the two

Wrights; years ago Old Chester's speculations languished and died out

Once in a while some one remembered the quarrel and said, "What in the

world could it have been about?" And once in a while Samuel's own

children asked aard questions "Mother, as father's roith

grandfather?" And Mrs Wright's ansas as direct as the question

"I don't know He never toldSam he dropped the subject He had

but faint interest in his father, and his grandfather hoht was too important a person to connect with

so trivial an affair as a quarrel

Thisis certainly very curious Why should the

solid Saht into

the world a being of hed or

wept or sung aloud, indifferent to all about him! Sometimes Sam senior

used to look at his son and shake his head in bewildered astonishh this he never

admitted--hurt The boy, always iht it

worth while to explain himself; partly because he was not interested