"Half of my money belongs to you, Mr. Clark."
The two men must have thought that her reason had left her after the terrible night, but she soon made her meaning clear.
"I didn't know it until a little while ago when I found out from those letters who you were. Not even then, just afterwards. Clark's Field was left to your grandfather and mine together, and somehow I got the whole of it—I mean I did from my mother and uncle. The lawyers can tell you all about it. Only it's really half yours—half of all there was!"
Archie now began to comprehend that his wife referred to the old legal difficulty over the title to Clark's Field, and interposed.
"You'd better wait, dear, until you are stronger before you try to think about business."
But Adelle utterly ignored him, as she was to do henceforth, and addressed herself singly to her cousin.
"I always thought it was all mine—they said it was. And when I knew about you, I didn't want to give it up; there isn't as much as there was because he has lost a good deal. But that makes no difference. Half of the whole belongs to you and your brothers and sisters. I'll see that you get it. That's all!"
She lay back exhausted.
The mason remarked,—
"It's rather surprising. But I guess it can wait. It's waited a good many years."