The result--
the legal result--of that is, that all his property becomes--ah--mine.
He--in fact he destroyed his will a very short time, comparatively
speaking, before he died, and he neglected to make another.
Unfortunately, you see, under these circumstances we can't be sure
what his wish was.'
She was deadly pale; there was anguish in the look with which she
regarded her father.
'I'm very sorry it pains you so, my dear,' Joseph remarked, still
more coldly. 'I didn't think you were so taken up with the thought
of money. Really, Jane, a young girl at your time of life--'
'Father, father, how can you think that? It wasn't to be for myself;
I thought you knew; indeed you did know!'
'But you looked so very strange, my dear. Evidently you felt--'
'Yes--I feel it--I do feel it! But because it means that
grandfather couldn't get back his trust in me. Oh, it is too hard!
When did he destroy his will? When, father?'
'Ten days before his death.'
'Yes; that was when it happened. You never heard; he promised to
tell nobody. I disappointed him. I showed myself very foolish and
weak in--in something that happened then. I made grandfather think
that I was too selfish to live as he hoped--that I couldn't do
what I'd undertaken.
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