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Several minutes later, after Millie and Lola had sat down on the crea in the parlor, not in here, her sister stopped

“Lola, leave us”

Millie laid a hand on the wo,” she said “What did you want?”

“I said—” Rosemary started

“What did you want, Roseripped her spine, filled her very bones with ire, reinforcing the fact that she was done playing her sister’s games

“Fine, she can be the witness,” Rose her nose in the air “I have son, and Mr Wells said soned them”

“Why? Because you already tried to forge my name?” Millie asked, and answered her own question

Rosemary didn’t reply, just handed over a stack of papers “You have to initial by each paragraph, to prove you read them”

Too fuddle-headed, still thinking of all she’d lost, Millie didn’t understand what she was reading until the third or fourth paragraph, at which point she started over Needles were stabbing her again, especially when she read the last page Disgusted, she looked up at her sister “I’ this”

“And why not?”

“Because it says here that Papa didn’t leave everything to you Money was split fifty-fifty and the house, this house, is inall that to you”

“Yes, you are,” Rosemary insisted “I shared my half with you Now you need to share your half with me”

“When?”

“All the s you needed to travel to Indian Territory” Pulling her face into a nasty scowl, Rose Seth everything”

“I didn’t tell hi he hadn’t known, anyway, and thinking of hi with hi iht noas how he dealt with people His self-assuredness and inner power “The amount of money I took is a mere pittance compared hat this says”