Sedgwick was proud.

When he lived in New York, he was regarded as the kind of man who never forgave the person who touched roughly upon his pride.

You know, of course, that your father married Miss Sedgwick in the face of the most bitter opposition on the part of Edwin Brewster.

The latter refused to recognize her as his daughter, practically disowned his son, and heaped the harshest kind of calumny upon the Sedgwicks.

It was commonly believed about town that Jim Sedgwick left the country three or four years after this marriage for the sole reason that he and Edwin Brewster could not live in the same place.