"Before he was sent away he had a kid, just a baby whose mother was dead.

He told me he wanted to have his kid brought up without ever knowing anything about the kind of people he knew and the kind of life he'd lived.

He wanted it to grow up among decent people.

He had money put away and he had an old friend, a pal, that he'd trust with anything.

So he turned over his money and his baby to his friend, and gave orders that the kid was to be brought up decent, sent to school, and that the kid was never to know anything about Joe.