High Ancestry of the Keeler Family 9 



Upper Canada College. John, son and heir, had early been 

 set apart by the proud mother for a distinguished career, had 

 graduated from Upper Canada College where he had shown his 

 ability, passed through the university, residing in his two 

 final years in his Frat house, graduating in political econ- 

 omy and history with an average standing. Logically he 

 went into law, and had been now for several years a junior in 

 a large legal firm. At every step, life had been made easy for 

 him. No questions of personal economics or of morals had 

 ever given him serious thought or trouble, and now, immersed 

 in club life and its duties, he had drifted along as a young man 

 around town, generally spoken of as clever, if only he would 

 apply himself and not devote so much time to the somewhat 

 veiled inside of clubdom. His brother, Tom, of the more even, 

 phlegmatic type of his father, had logically gone from Upper 

 Canada College into the warehouse to be initiated into the busi- 

 ness of which his father was properly proud. Tom had not, 

 perhaps, been too regular as to hours at the warehouse; but as 

 he had to uphold the honours of the Argonauts in their eight- 

 oared crew, and to attend assiduously all yacht club races, such 

 irregularities were pardonable even necessary. Like his 

 brother, Tom Keeler had moved naturally and easily into club 

 life and was generally liked by everyone as a splendid young 

 fellow of fine physique; but none accused him of being as yet 

 seriously solicitous about the firm's welfare, or a shining star in 

 the business firmament of Front Street. This, however, every- 

 one said would all come in good time when his father loosened 

 his hold on the reins. "Tom was all right!" Such then was 

 the Keeler family as it appeared to the public. 



