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The $30000 Bequest and Other Stories

CHAPTER VIII
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Then, white-faced and weak-voiced, Sally asked: "Is it true?
Do you KNOW it to be true ?" "Well, I should say! I was one of the executors.

He hadn't anything to leave but a wheelbarrow, and he left that to me.

It hadn't any wheel, and wasn't any good.

Still, it was something, and so, to square up, I scribbled off a sort of a little obituarial send-off for him, but it got crowded out." The Fosters were not listening--their cup was full, it could contain no more.

They sat with bowed heads, dead to all things but the ache at their hearts.
An hour later.


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