He was then at Oxford, and was intended for the bar.

An uncle of his, a younger brother of his father, had married a Carbury, the younger sister of two, though older than her brother Roger.

This uncle many years since had taken his wife out to California, and had there become an American.

He had a large tract of land, growing wool, and wheat, and fruit; but whether he prospered or whether he did not, had not always been plain to the Montagues and Carburys at home.

The intercourse between the two families had, in the quite early days of Paul Montague's life, created an affection between him and Roger, who, as will be understood by those who have carefully followed the above family history, were not in any degree related to each other.