But now he had almost forgotten Davis,had turned the matter over in his mind till he had taught himself to think that the disruption had been altogether his son's work, and in no degree his own.

The closing of the overseas markets of Germany, and the consequent shrinkage in production, the disruption of normal industrial life by the withdrawal of millions of men to join the colours, and the abnormal character of existing trade, due to the needs of the armies in the field, are not conditions favourable to the easy resumption of normal commercial relations.