24 EASY-CHAIR MEMORIES 



wholly against his father. Mr. Lyne was 

 furious that his son should put his father in 

 the wrong; but the Monk could not retract 

 his verdict, and he would not, whereupon 

 Mr. Lyne, in presence of others of his family, 

 took a terrible vow "to crush the Monk." 



He wrote broadcast to the London and 

 provincial papers attacking his son by a volley 

 of wild, incoherent accusations, . . . exhorting 

 the public to beware of a man who was "a 

 thief, a deceiver, and a dishonest person ; 

 one who had killed his mother, and would 

 soon be able to say that he had brought both 

 his parents in sorrow to their graves." In 

 this way he did his son immense injury for 

 many years. In 1888 Mr. Lyne's perturbed 

 spirit found rest he died reconciled to his 

 son. " The Monk's unqualified forgiveness 

 helped to make the closing hours sweet." 



I have been personally interested in this 

 termination of Mr. Lyne's career ; after a long 

 time of pleasant business relations with him, 

 I had a singular experience of his wrong- 

 headed obstinacy. He asked my firm to 

 allow our names to appear as publishers of a 

 pamphlet for him, and without seeing it we 



