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The Shoulders of Atlas

CHAPTER II
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I guess poor Abrahama had some reason to cut off Susy.

I guess there was some double-dealing.

I thought so at the time, and now this will makes me think so even more." Again there was a silence, and again that expression of bewilderment, almost amounting to idiocy, reigned in the faces of the husband and wife.
"I never thought old Abraham White should have made the will he did," said Henry, articulating with difficulty.

"Susy had just as much right to the property, and there she was cut off with five hundred dollars, to be paid when she came of age." "I guess she spent that five hundred on her wedding fix," said Sylvia.
"It was a queer will," stammered Henry.
"I think the old man always looked at Abrahama as his son and heir," said the lawyer.

"She was named for him, and his father before him, you know.


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