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"I will call him, if you will let me call Mr Jonah and others with

hi chap I shall do as I like"

"Wait till broad daylight, sir, when every one is stirring Or let o and fetch the lawyer? He can be here in less

than two hours"

"Lawyer? What do I ith the lawyer? Nobody shall know--I say,

nobody shall know I shall do as I like"

"Let me call some one else, sir," said Mary, persuasively She did not

like her position--alone with the old y which enabled hi into his usual cough; yet she desired not to push

unnecessarily the contradiction which agitated him "Let me, pray,

call some one else"

"You let me alone, I say Look here, ain It's pretty nigh two hundred--there's

more in the box, and nobody kno much there was Take it and do

as I tell you"

Mary, standing by the fire, saw its red light falling on the old man,

propped up on his pillows and bed-rest, with his bony hand holding out

the key, and the ot

that vision of ato do as he liked at the last But the

way in which he had put the offer of the ed her to speak with