Do you happen to know, Miss Garth, whether Mr.Vanstone's property was in money or in land ?" "In money," replied Miss Garth.

"I have heard him say so on more than one occasion." "Then I can relieve your mind by speaking from my own experience.

The law, if he has died intestate, gives a third of his property to his widow, and divides the rest equally among his children." "But if Mrs.Vanstone--" "If Mrs.Vanstone should die," pursued the doctor, completing the question which Miss Garth had not the heart to conclude for herself, "I believe I am right in telling you that the property would, as a matter of legal course, go to the children.

Whatever necessity there may be for the interview which Mr.Pendril requests, I can see no reason for connecting it with the question of Mr.Vanstone's presumed intestacy.
But, by all means, put the question, for the satisfaction of your own mind, to Mr.Pendril himself." Miss Garth withdrew to take the course which the doctor advised.

After communicating to Mr.Pendril the medical decision which, thus far, refused him the interview that he sought, she added a brief statement of the legal question she had put to the doctors; and hinted delicately at her natural anxiety to be informed of the motives which had led the lawyer to make his request.