Clive slunk away from committees and canvassing, and lounged about the
Newcome manufactories, whilst his father, with anger and bitterness in
his heart, remained at the post of honour, as he called it, bent upon
overcoming his enemy and carrying his point against Barnes Newcome. "If
Paris will not fight, sir," the Colonel said, with a sad look following
his son, "Priam must." Good old Priam believed his cause to be a
perfectly just one, and that duty and his honour called upon him to draw
the sword. So there was difference between Thomas Newcome and Clive his
son. I protest it is with pain and reluctance I have to write that the
good old man was in error--that there was a wrong-doer, and that Atticus
was he.
Atticus, be it remembered, thought himself compelled by the very best
motives. Thomas Newcome, the Indian banker, was at war with Barnes, the
English banker. The latter had commenced the hostilities by a sudden and
cowardly act of treason. There were private wrongs to envenom the
contest, but it was the mercantile quarrel on which the Colonel chose to
set his declaration of war.
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