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240 Githa Sowerby
were taking their ease plotted and planned to get my
chance, taken it and held it when it come till I could ha
burst with the struggle. Sell ! You talk o selling to me,
when everything you ll ever make couldn t pay back the
life I ve given to you!
John. Oh, I know, I know. I ve been both for five
years. Only I ve had no salary.
Rutherford. You ve been put to learn your business
like any other young fellow. I began at the bottom
you ve got to do the same. . . . Your father has lived
here, and your grandfather before you. It s your in
heritance can t you realize that ? what you ve got to
come to when I m under ground. We ve made it for
you, stone by stone, penny by penny, fighting through
thick and thin for close on a hundred years. . . . It s
what you ve got to do or starve. You re my son
you ve got to come after me.
Janet knows her father better than John; she
knows that
"
no one ever stands out against
father for long or else they get so knocked
about, they don t matter any more." Janet
knows, and when the moment arrives that brings
her father s blow upon her head, it does not come
as a surprise to her. When old Rutherford dis
covers her relation with Martin, his indignation is
as characteristic of the man as everything else in
his life. It is not outraged morality or a father s
love. It is always and forever the House of
Rutherford. Moreover, the discovery of the
affair between his daughter and his workman
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