“No, I suppose not. Where did this accident happen?” asked the lady.
That ain’t important,” answered Rudolph. “It’s happened—that’s all you need to know. Tony won’t never come after that estate of his.”
“It would have done him little good. He was not fitted by education to assume it.”
“No; but he might have been educated. But that’s all over now. It’s yours. Nobody can take it from you.”
“True!” said Mrs. Middleton, and a look of pleasure succeeded the momentary horror. “You will be ready to testify that the boy is dead?”
“There won’t be any danger, will there? They won’t ask too many questions?”
“As to that, I think we had better decide what we will say. It won’t be necessary to say how the boy died.”
“Won’t it?”
“No. Indeed, it will be better to give a different account.”
“Will that do just as well?”