15/16 It would naturally mean that some one else resented this bequest, and probably with some justice. The property was to become your own when you attained a certain age, let us say. Don't you see that the day would rob the disinherited person of every hope to retain the fortune? Or she might have been influenced by a will stronger than her own--the will of an unscrupulous man. There are many contingencies, all probable, as you choose to analyse them." "But why should this person wish to banish me from the country altogether? |