18/36 There's no manner of doubt about it; and the money--oh, Lord, Lotty, if you only knew how much it is!" "What does it matter, Joe, how much it is, if it is neither yours nor mine ?" "It matters this: that it ought all to be mine." "How can that be, if it was not left to you ?" Joe was nothing if not a man of resource. He therefore replied without hesitation or confusion: "The money was left to a certain man and to his heirs. His heiress should have succeeded, but she was kept out of her rights. She is dead, and I am her cousin, and entitled to all her property, because she made no will." "Is that gospel truth, Joe? |