Am I not intermeddling, unjustly, in the affairs of
another?"
"But for you," I replied, "this will might never have seen the
light. If heirs exist, they can, therefore, have no just reason for
complaint at the brief delay to which, under the circumstances, you
are, in common justice, entitled. Your conscience may be over
sensitive, Mrs. Montgomery."
"I would rather it were over sensitive than obtuse," she said.
"Worldly possessions are desirable. They give us many advantages. We
all desire and cling to them. But they are dearly bought at the
price of heavenly possessions. What will it profit a man if he gain
the whole world and lose his own soul? Nothing! It were better for
him to die like Lazarus. No, Doctor, I am resolved in this matter to
be simply just. If, in justice and right, this estate comes into my
hands, I will take the wealth thankfully and use it as wisely as I
can. But I will not throw a single straw in the way of its passing
to the legal heirs of my brother's wife, if any are in existence and
can be found."
"But you will keep this secret until Mr.
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