Roger, when quite a young man, had had the charge of the boy's education, and had sent him to Oxford.

But the Oxford scheme, to be followed by the bar, and to end on some one of the many judicial benches of the country, had not succeeded.

Paul had got into a 'row' at Balliol, and had been rusticated,--had then got into another row, and was sent down.
Indeed he had a talent for rows,--though, as Roger Carbury always declared, there was nothing really wrong about any of them.

Paul was then twenty-one, and he took himself and his money out to California, and joined his uncle.

He had perhaps an idea,--based on very insufficient grounds,--that rows are popular in California.