He had questioned Dr.Schulze anxiously about his father's seizure; and Schulze, who had taken a strong fancy to him and had wished to put him at ease, declared that the attack must have begun at the mills, and would probably have brought Hiram down before he could have reached home, had he not been so powerful of body and of will.

And Arthur, easily reassured where he must be assured if he was to have peace of mind, now believed that his outburst had had no part whatever in causing his father's stroke.

So he was all for firm stand against slavery.

"If I yield an inch now," he went on to Adelaide, "he'll never stop until he has made me his slave.

He has lorded it over those workingmen so long that the least opposition puts him in a frenzy." Adelaide gave over, for the time, the combat against a stubbornness which was an inheritance from his father.