VI.
A long letter from Uncle Edward. Uncle Edward was worrying Mamma.
"He never could get on with your poor father. Or your Uncle Victor. He did his best to prevent him being made trustee…. And now he comes meddling, wanting to upset all their arrangements."
"Why?"
"Just because poor Victor's business isn't doing quite so well as it did."
"Yes, but why's he bothering you about it?"
"Well, he says I ought to make another will, leaving half the boys' money to you. That would be taking it from Dan. He always had a grudge against poor Dan."
"But you mustn't do anything of the sort."
"Well—he knows your father provided for you. You're to have the Five Elms money that's in your Uncle Victor's business. You'd suppose, to hear him talk, that it wasn't safe there."
"Just tell him to mind his own business," Mary said.