You 're the wrong man 's son for that . Your father was lazy and incompetent and , worst of all , untrustworthy . I did try to help him once , and all I got was loss and ingratitude . I want none of his kind around my place . I do n't believe in you , so you may as well take yourself off , Ellis . I 've no more time to waste . '' Ellis took himself off , his ears tingling . As he walked homeward his thoughts were very bitter . All Uncle Timothy had said about his father was true , and Ellis realized what a count it was against him in his efforts to obtain employment . Nobody wanted to be bothered with `` Old Sam Duncan 's son , '' though nobody had been so brutally outspoken as his Uncle Timothy . Sam Duncan and Timothy Robinson had been half-brothers . Sam , the older , had been the son of Mrs. Robinson 's former marriage . Never were two lads more dissimilar . Sam was a lazy , shiftless fellow , deserving all the hard things that came to be said of him . He would not work and nobody could depend on him , but he was a handsome lad with rather taking ways in his youth , and at first people had liked him better than the close , blunt , industrious Timothy . Their mother had died in their childhood , but Mr. Robinson had been fond of Sam and the boy had a good home . When he was twenty-two and Timothy eighteen , Mr. Robinson had died very suddenly , leaving no will . Everything he possessed went to Timothy . Sam immediately left . He said he would not stay there to be `` bossed '' by Timothy .
He rented a little house in the village , married a girl `` far too good XXXXX him , '' and started in to support himself and his wife by days ' work .
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