Instead of this, as an observer of domestic and professional life, he believed that out of the thousands to whom he had sold this tool, not ten had ever needed to cut glass, nor ever would.
There was another who continued indifferent to the personal estate of this father.

This was Grandfather Delcher, who had never seen him since that bleak day when he had tried to bury the memory of his daughter.

When the perfect father came to Edom the grandfather went to his room and kept there so closely that neither ever beheld the other.

The little boy was much puzzled by this apparently intentional avoidance of each other by two men of such rare distinction, and during the early visits of his father he was fruitful of suggestion for bringing them together.

But when he came to understand that they remained apart by wish of the elder man, he was troubled.