"What, the hundred and fifty pounds?"
"Aye, I reckon the hundred and fifty pounds."
"But the money is not left to you."
"I know it b'aint; I want it for the child."
"You are not going to have it."
"Look here. Master Iver Verstage, you never ort to ha' been made trustee for my child. It's so much as puttin' a slight and an insult on me. If that child be mine then I'm the one as should have the trust. Don't I know best what the child wants? Don't I know best how to lay it out for its advantage? The money ort to ha' been put in my hands and in none other. That's my opinion."
"Bideabout!" answered Iver, "it is not a question as to what my father and mother should have done. I did not seek to be made trustee. It was a freak on the part of my dear mother. As she has done it, there it is; neither you nor I can alter that."
"Yes. You can renounce trusteeship."
"That will not help. Then I suppose the money would go into Chancery, and would be consumed there without any of it reaching the child."
Jonas considered, and then shook his head.