He was heir to a peerage, and has, perhaps, now come into it.

I have no reasons for supposing that he sided with his father against yours.

The brothers were not bad friends, although they saw little of each other; for your father, after he left Oxford, was for the most part away from England, until a year before his marriage; and at that time your uncle was in America, having gone out with two or three others on a hunting expedition among the Rocky Mountains.

There is, therefore, no reason for supposing that he will receive you otherwise than kindly, when once he is sure that you are his nephew.

He may, indeed, for aught I know, have made efforts to discover your father, after he returned from abroad." "I would rather leave them alone altogether, Mother," Gregory said passionately.
"That you cannot do, my boy.