"We expected that, naturally," said the Captain.

"It's what he'd ought to have done, of course.

Well, she'll be pretty well fixed, won't she ?" Judge Baxter shook his head.

"Why, no--she won't," he said, soberly.
"That is a part of the surprise which I mentioned at first.

Captain Hall was, practically, a poor man when he died." That the prophesied surprise was now a reality was manifest.