CHAPTER XXVIII

NOBODY HAS ever described the scene which followed the real Walter Derrick’s discovery that his father had married again. The quarrel was a bitter one, there was money behind it, for Walter was extravagant. This extravagance had a curious cause. He had the same experimental mind as his father, but his pet experiments cost money, since they were devoted to the study of metallurgy and particularly to gold recovery. He left his father’s house never to see him again and sailed for South Africa in the steerage. A year’s…