Yet some newspapers had said he was a man of goodwill, and had appreciation of talent, adding, however, the doubtful suggestion that the appreciation stopped short of the prowess of his son Carnac in the field of Art.

It was evident John Grier's act was thought by the conventionalist to be a wicked blunder.
As Carnac saw the world where there was not a single material thing that belonged to him, he had a sudden conviction that his life would run in other lines than those within which it had been drawn to the present time.

Looking over this wonderful prospect of the St.Lawrence, he had an insistent feeling that he ought to remain in the land where he was born, and give of whatever he was capable to its life.

It was all a strenuous problem.

For Carnac there was, duly or unduly, fairly or unfairly, a fate better than that of John Grier.