Only once did Temple address Harry, walking silently by his side under the magnolias, and then only to remark, more to himself than to his companion--"It's his damned, dirty pride, Harry--that's what it is!" Harry also held his peace.

He had no theories regarding his father's conduct: only facts confronted him, one being that he had purposely humiliated him before the men who had known him from a boy, and with whom his future life must be cast.

The end had come now.

He was adrift without a home.

Even Kate was lost.