You should have spoken sooner." "Then you must go your own way.

As for me, I must look for another son to bear the burden of my years." And so they parted.
Anton Trendellsohn understood well the meaning of the old man's threat.
He was quite alive to the fact that his father had expressed his intention to give his wealth and his standing in trade and the business of his house to some younger Jew, who would be more true than his own son to the traditional customs of their tribes.

There was Ruth Jacobi, his granddaughter--the only child of the house--who had already reached an age at which she might be betrothed; and there was Samuel Loth, the son of Baltazar Loth, old Trendellsohn's oldest friend.

Anton Trendellsohn did not doubt who might be the adopted child to be taken to fill his place.

It has been already explained that there was no partnership actually existing between the two Trendellsohns.