Then the robber took the man's watch and waller and disappeared. The officer, Whose name was Georges Pontmercy, had a son named Marius. Marius, whose mother had died, lived with his grandfather, a very wealthy man named M. Gillenormand. But M. Gillenormand hated his son-in-law, Marius' father. After Georges Pontmercy recovered from. his injury,M. Gillenormand paid him to stay away from his son. Pontmercy accepted the offer because he wanted his son to have a good life