His was the only free will allowed on the place.

He attempted to treat Rad at twenty-two much as he had done at twelve.

A few months before my arrival (I heard this later) he had even struck him, whereupon Radnor had turned on his heel and walked out of the house, and had only consented to come back two weeks later when he heard that the old man was ill.

If two men ever needed a woman to manage them, these were the two.

I think that if my aunt had lived, most of the trouble would have been avoided.
Rad was not the only one, however, who felt the Colonel's irritation over the robbery.