"

Now

," she announced, "I see plainly what he intends doing. He is

going to destroy that will, and burden me once more with a large and

influential fortune. I don't want it, and I won't take it, and he

might just as well understand that in the very beginning. I don't care

if Uncle Fred did leave it to me--I didn't ask him to, did I? Besides,

he was a very foolish old man--if he had left the money to Billy

everything

would have been all right. That's always the way--my