"How much could I get?" breathed Paul.
"Between five and six thousand per year; between four and five hundred dollars per month."
Paul's eyes dilated. "But how am I to live until then?"
"You might begin to earn it."
"Work!" exclaimed Paul indignantly. "With all that money coming to me?"
"Your uncle," said Beaks, removing his glasses to polish them leisurely, "seems to have understood your bent of mind. You may work little or much as you please. But you will receive a stipend equal only to the income you are earning from honest work eighteen months hence! I see that term is ungrateful to you, here is one which you may like better:
"The above provision is upon the express term and condition that my said nephew shall engage in no remunerative work after he begins to receive this income from the trust fund. There shall be deducted from the payments to be made him sums equal to any moneys which he shall be receiving from any other sources; so that, to take full advantage of this provision for him, my said nephew shall be required to abandon all efforts to support himself, and to engage in no remunerative work whatsoever.
"In other words," said Beaks, "you are debarred from earning your own living so long as you take this money; you are expressly forbidden to work!"
"Is there anything else?" asked Paul, wondering why Beaks paused.