I shall write to her immediately." "Do," Jacob Nowell said eagerly; "I want to see her before I die.

You did not meet the husband, then, I suppose ?" "No; Mr.Holbrook was not there." He told Jacob Nowell all that it was possible for him to tell about his interview with Marian; and the old man seemed warmly interested in the subject.

Death was very near him, and the savings of the long dreary years during which his joyless life had been devoted to money-making must soon pass into other hands.

He wanted to know something of the person who was to profit by his death; he wanted to be sure that when he was gone some creature of his own flesh and blood would remember him kindly; not for the sake of his money alone, but for something more than that.
"I shall make my will to-morrow," he said, before Gilbert left him.

"I don't mind owning to you that I have something considerable to bequeath; for I think I can trust you.