Where he went, no one knew.

He came straight from this extra job home and died of poison.

Mother thought," added Susan, looking round cautiously, "that someone must have had a wish to get rid of father, he knowing too much." "Too much of what, my gal ?" asked Mrs.Pill, with open mouth.
"Ah! That's what I'd like to find out," said Susan garrulously, "but nothing was ever known, and father was buried as a suicide.

Then mother, having me and my four brothers, married again, and I took the name of her new husband." "Then your name ain't really Grant ?" asked Geraldine.
"No! It's Maxwell, father being Scotch and a clever workman.

Susan Maxwell is my name, but after the suicide--if it was one--mother felt the disgrace so, that she made us all call ourselves Grant.