Every line Helmsley had written to her in this last appeal to her tenderness, came from his very heart, and went to her own heart again, moving her to the utmost reverence, pity and affection.
In his letter he enclosed a paper with a list of bequests which he left to her charge.
"I could not name them in my Will,"-- he wrote--"as this would have disclosed my identity--but you, my dear, will be more exact than the law in the payment of what I have here set down as just.

And, therefore, to you I leave this duty." First among these legacies came one of Ten Thousand Pounds to "my old friend Sir Francis Vesey,"-- and then followed a long list of legacies to servants, secretaries, and workpeople generally.

The sum of Five Hundred Pounds was to be paid to Miss Tranter, hostess of "The Trusty Man,"-- "for her kindness to me on the one night I passed under her hospitable roof,"-- and sums of Two Hundred Pounds each were left to "Matthew Peke, Herb Gatherer," and Farmer Joltram, both these personages to be found through the aforesaid Miss Tranter.

Likewise a sum of Two Hundred Pounds was to be paid to one "Meg Ross--believed to hold a farm near Watchett in Somerset." No one that had served the poor "tramp" was forgotten by the great millionaire;--a sum of Five Hundred Pounds was left to John Bunce, "with grateful and affectionate thanks for his constant care"-- and a final charge to Mary was the placing of Fifty Thousand Pounds in trust for the benefit of Weircombe, its Church, and its aged poor.

The money in bank notes, enclosed with the testator's last Will and Testament, was to be given to Mary for her own immediate use,--and then came the following earnest request;--"I desire that the sum of Half-a-crown, made up of coppers and one sixpence, which will be found with these effects, shall be enclosed in a casket of gold and inscribed with the words 'The "surprise gift" collected by "Tom o' the Gleam" for David Helmsley, when as a tramp on the road he seemed to be in need of the charity and sympathy of his fellow men and which to him was MORE PRECIOUS THAN MANY MILLIONS.
And I request that the said casket containing these coins may be retained by Mary Deane as a valued possession in her family, to be handed down as a talisman and cornerstone of fortune for herself and her heirs in perpetuity." Finally the list of bequests ended with one sufficiently unusual to be called eccentric.