Excerpt: ...him. However, it seems that Bertram and Margaret Keith met him in Montreal, and she is coming here to-morrow." "A very sad affair." Greythorpe mused. "A promising career cut short and a life ruined by a moment's failure of nerve. The price paid for it was a heavy one. Still, I found the matter difficult to understand, because, so far as I could tell, there was nothing in Blake's character that made such a failure possible. Then it's known that personal courage was always a characteristic of your family." "His ...
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Excerpt: ...him. However, it seems that Bertram and Margaret Keith met him in Montreal, and she is coming here to-morrow." "A very sad affair." Greythorpe mused. "A promising career cut short and a life ruined by a moment's failure of nerve. The price paid for it was a heavy one. Still, I found the matter difficult to understand, because, so far as I could tell, there was nothing in Blake's character that made such a failure possible. Then it's known that personal courage was always a characteristic of your family." "His mother was my sister. You have seen her portrait." Greythorpe made a sign of assent. He knew the picture of the woman with the proud, determined face. "And the other side? Was the strain equally virile?" he asked. "You shall judge," said Challoner. "You and Margaret Keith are the only people to whom I have ever spoken freely of these things. I am sure of your discretion and sympathy." He crossed the floor and, opening a cabinet, came back with a photograph, which he gave to his companion. "Dick's father. He was famous as a daring rider across an Irish, stone-wall country, and was killed when taking a dangerous leap." Greythorpe studied the face, which was of Irish type, with bold eyes in which a reckless twinkle showed. On the whole, it suggested an ardent and somewhat irresponsible temperament. "No sign of weakness there," he said. "Though he might be careless and headstrong, this man would ride straight and stand fire. I can't hint at an explanation of his son's disaster, but I imagine that one might have been found if it had been diligently searched for. My opinion is that there's something hidden; but whether it will ever come out is another matter. But-your nephew hasn't forfeited my liking. If I can ever be of any service." "Thanks; I know," responded Challoner. "It looks as if he meant to cut loose from all of us. While I'm sorry, I can't say that he's wrong or that it's not a proper feeling. And now I think we'll let the subject drop...".
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