Herman. And from which I will save you.
Derric. You?
Herman. Yes. I! Rip van Winkle, your tenant—
Derric. What has that idle, dissipated fellow to do with the present matter?
Herman. Much, as I will show you, and his daughter more.
Derric. His daughter?
Herman. Now scarcely seven years old, I believe. This girl has an aunt residing in New York, who has long since, in consequence of an affront received from Van Winkle, discarded the whole family. But I have discovered that, of which they have no notion.
Derric. What do you mean?
Herman. Why, that the whole of this aunt's fortune, and she is immensely rich, must of necessity, at the old lady's death, become the inheritance of the little Lowena.
Derric. And in what way can that affect us?