d nothing else to do, looked into the matter of Uncle Loren's will and found that the old man, in his innocence of charity and his passion for e

the result of what he called "the little joker" in Uncle Lore

The logic of events ran through his head lik

heard I wasn't she was mean to me. Now that my money's coming to me, after all, she'

mother answered the door-bell and congratulated him on his good luck. When he asked for Ellar, her mother said, "She was feelin'

up courage enough to twist that old door-bell again. Suddenly she ran into him

the drug-store and get some chloroform

It was the least becoming thing she could have done. Eddie asked whether her mother was so sick as all that. She said "No"-then

clasp her to his heart and comfort her. She twisted out of

"You didn't mind it this

mpletely flab

didn't have all

ot against Uncle Loren's money? It ain't a

ht-you might really like me because I could be of some-of some use to you; but n

opped to listen. Eddie wanted to throw a rock at whoe

own to any homely old crow like me when you got money enough to marry anybody. You can

g better to say than, "

gaped she