“Justice?”
“Justice!”
“I do not understand you in the least!”
“Miss Seabright, have you ever learned how it was that you came into possession of all this estate?”
“My dear godfather gave it to me.”
“Do you know why he conveyed it to you in his life rather than bequeath it to you at his death?”
“No.”
“Because, had he merely bequeathed it to you, his will would have been set aside by our courts of justice in favor of his wife and child.”
“Well, he did convey it to me! It is mine, at all events!” said Garnet, with a flushed cheek and brow.
“And yet he had a wife and daughter whom he beggared to enrich you. Was this right?”