In the beginning we have intimated that this was not so.

He purposed wrong to no one.

Honest he was in all his dealings with the world; honest even to the division of a penny.

The radical fault of his character was coldness and intolerance.

Toward wrong-doing and wrong-doers, he had no forbearance whatever; and to him that strayed from the right path, whether child or man, he meted out, if in his power, the full measure of consequences.