"No, confound these doors! none close as they ought in this house.

Is it not a clause in your settlement that the half of your fortune now invested goes to the survivor ?" "It is," replied Lucretia, struck and thrilled at the question.

"How, again, did you know this ?" "I saw my father reading the copy.

If you die first, then, he has all.
If he merely wanted the money, he would not send you away." There was a terrible pause.

Gabriel resumed: "I trust you, it may be, with my life; but I will speak out.