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of the boy’s now thoroughly unhappy
father.

For the next two or three days the con­
duct of that lawyer was indeed remarkably

strange. He was always popping in and
out of the Little House—paying the greatest

attention to Faivbrass, and endeavouring to
persuade the father to go with him to the

Big House ; but on this point he had to
give way.
i My dead father would not have wished

it,'he said. ‘ The quarrel between us was

a bitter and a lasting one. He refused to
recognise my dear wife, and I should be a
hypocrite if I were to go and lament over

his remains. Oh yes, I will go to the
funeral, I think it is my duty to do that;

and, since you wish it, my boys shall go too
—all except Fairbrass.'

‘ But I particularly wish Fairbrass to
go,’ said the lawyer; ‘ it is important that

he should go, and on that point you must
give way.1

Well, as there was no particular reason