With her face still turned toward her mother, she appeared to be fleeing from her.
Mrs.Field stood her ground stanchly.

"No, I wa'n't," she went on.
"An' I'll tell you why.

I'm goin' to have that fifteen hundred dollars of your poor father's earnin's that I lent your uncle out of this property, an' this is all the way to do it, an' I'm goin' to do it." "I thought," gasped Lois--"I thought maybe it belonged to us anyway if Aunt Esther was dead." "It didn't.

The money was all left to old Mr.Maxwell's niece in case Esther died first." "Couldn't you have asked the lawyer about the fifteen hundred dollars?
Wouldn't he have given you some?
O mother!" "I was goin' to if he hadn't took me for her, but it wouldn't have done any good.

They wouldn't have been obliged to pay it, an' folks ain't fond of payin' over money when they ain't obliged to.