Forty thousand I leave to my dear daughter Kate." A look of interest came over Girdlestone's face.

"And the balance ?" he asked.
"I leave that to be equally divided among the various London institutions for educating the poor.

We were both poor boys ourselves, John, and we know the value of such schools." Girdlestone looked perhaps a trifle disappointed.

The sick man went on very slowly and painfully-- "My daughter will have forty thousand pounds.

But it is so tied up that she can neither touch it herself nor enable any one else to do so until she is of age.