text:  He recalled to mind how in his dying moments the self-elected father of his youth had summoned him to his side and talked to him of that other father whom he had never known; how he had spoken in broken accents and with much remorse of the possible hatred engendered between father and son; of his own regrets now first clearly awakened in him that he himself might have been the cause of such a consummation; and how then with his last breath he in vain endeavoured to murmur expressions of bitter repentance for some cruel wrong done the nature of which no longer met the ear of the anxious listener and was soon left for ever unexplained in the silence of death