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238 Githa Sowerby
with the latter s wife and child induces old Ruther
ford to forgive his son s marriage with a mere
shop-girl, but because he needs John to serve the
house of Rutherford. The one inexorable pur
pose, always and ever!
His second son Richard, who is in the ministry,
and
"
of no use
"
to old Rutherford s God of
stone, receives the loving assurance:
"
You were
no good for my purpose, and there s the end; for
the matter o that, you might just as well never
ha been born."
For that matter, his daughter Janet might also
never have been born, except that she was
"
good
enough
"
to look after her father s house, serve
him, even helping take off his boots, and submitting
without a murmur to the loveless, dismal life in
the Rutherford home. Her father has sternly
kept every suitor away,
"
because no one in Grant-
ley s good enough for us." Janet has become
faded, sour and miserable with yearning for love,
for sunshine and warmth, and when she at last
dares to partake of it secretly with her father s
trusted man Martin, old Rutherford sets his iron
heel upon her love, and drags it through the mud
till it lies dead.
Again, when he faces the spirit of rebellion in
his son John, Rutherford crushes it without the
slightest hesitation in behalf of his one obsession,
his one God the House of Rutherford.
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