But if there was a hidden well of feeling in Mr. Benham
senior, it had been very carefully boarded over. The parental mind
and attention were entirely engaged in a dispute in the SCHOOL WORLD
about the heuristic method. Somebody had been disrespectful to
Martindale House and the thing was rankling almost unendurably. It
seemed to be a relief to him to show his son very fully the
essentially illogical position of his assailant. He was entirely
inattentive to Benham's carefully made conversational opportunities.
He would be silent at times while Benham talked and then he would
break out suddenly with: "What seems to me so unreasonable, so
ridiculous, in the whole of that fellow's second argument--if one
can call it an argument--. . . . A man who reasons as he does is
bound to get laughed at. If people will only see it. . . ."
CHAPTER THE SIXTH
THE NEW HAROUN AL RASCHID
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Benham corresponded with Amanda until the summer of 1913. Sometimes
the two wrote coldly to one another, sometimes with warm affection,
sometimes with great bitterness.
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