The renewal of the friendship dated from the accident to Arthur's hand; it rapidly developed as he lost the sense of patronizing Laurent, and as Laurent for his part lost the suspicion that Arthur was secretly patronizing him.

Then Arthur discovered that Lorry had, several years before, sent for a catalogue of the University of Michigan, had selected a course leading to the B.S.degree, had bought the necessary text-books, had studied as men work only at that which they love for its own sake and not for any advantage to be got from it.

His father, a captain of volunteers in the Civil War, was killed in the Wilderness; his mother was a washerwoman.

His father's father--Jean Montague, the first blacksmith of Saint X--had shortened the family name.

In those early, nakedly practical days, long names and difficult names, such as naturally develop among peoples of leisure, were ruthlessly taken to the chopping block by a people among whom a man's name was nothing in itself, was simply a convenience for designating him.