"Dead as a door-nail." "Is that the way you got the papers ?" "That's the way, Lotty." "Then why not go to a lawyer and make him take up the case for you, and honestly get your own ?" "You don't know law, my dear, or you wouldn't talk nonsense about lawyers.

There are two ways.

One is to go myself to the present unlawful possessor and claim the whole.

It's a woman; she would be certain to refuse, and then we should go to law, and very likely lose it all, although the right is on our side.

The other way is for some one--say you--to go to her and say: 'I am that man's daughter.