She got up in bed, and told Samuel to go to the county-seat and see if the deeds had ever been recorded.

And while her husband was gone she sat up and looked better, and even scolded a little, so that Julia felt encouraged.
But she dreaded to see her father come back.
Samuel Anderson entered the house on his return with a blank countenance.

Sitting down, he put his face between his hands a minute in utter dejection.
"Why don't you speak ?" said Mrs.Anderson in a broken voice.
"The land was all transferred to Andrew immediately, and he owns every foot of it.

He must have sent Bob Walker here to buy it." "Oh! I'm so glad!" cried Julia.
But her mother only gave her one reproachful look and went off into hysterical sobbing and crying over the wrong that Andrew had done her.
And all that night Julia watched by her mother, while Samuel Anderson sat in dejection by the bed.

As for Norman, he had quickly relapsed into his old habits, and his former cronies had generously forgiven him his temporary piety, considering the peculiar circumstances of the case some extenuation.