He knew now that never again in this world would he see his dear father, or hear him speak.

This much had been made very clear to him during the last ten minutes.

Why this should be so, or what his father would want him to do, he could not seem to find out.

Not until now had he realized at all what this going away of his father was to mean to him.

And he told himself frantically that he could not have it so.