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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: his devotion to his father by an exemplary life. He, too, was
married and left an only son, also named for the old soldier. The
boys were about of an age and were well matched in physical and
mental equipment. But the general, who had taken them both to
live with him, soon discovered that their characters were as
dissimilar as the poles. One grandson was frank, generous, open
as the light; the other was of a nature almost degenerate. In
fact, each had inherited the qualities of his father. Tales began
to come to the old general's ears that at first he refused to
credit. But eventually it was made plain to him that one of the
boys was a rake of the most objectionable type.
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