“So it is; but that cannot be recalled. The rest of the property ought to be saved from Mr. Brackett.”
“That’s easy enough. He needn’t give it to him.”
“But uncle Simon may be persecuted into doing what he does not wish to do.”
“Mother,” said Andy, with a sudden thought, “who will get the property if Mr. Dodge dies without a will?”
“I suppose it would go to his relations.”
“What other relations has he besides you?”
“I don’t think he has any others,” answered Mrs. Gordon.
“Then it may come to us.”
“We have more right to it than Mr. Brackett,” said his mother.
“Then,” said Andy, after a short pause, “there must be a struggle between me and Brackett.”