“He hasn’t never troubled you.”
“Not yet, and but for one thing I would not have come to America in search of him.”
“What is that?”
“I want to marry again.”
The tramp whistled.
Mrs. Middleton frowned, but went on:
“This time I love the man I want to marry. He is from an excellent family, but he is a younger son, and has little or nothing himself. If the estate were mine absolutely, there would be no opposition on the part of his family, but with the knowledge that the boy may turn up at any time nothing will be done.”
“I see,” said the tramp, nodding.
But for this I would never have stirred in the matter
at all. I did not think it probable that the boy would ever hear of his inheritance.”