Arthur cannot live many years. His
nerves will wear him out, if nothing else, and when he does, his money
will naturally come to me.'
'Naturally,' his spectral companion replied, and he continued:
'Well, what I intend doing is this: I shall make my will, in which Jerry
will share equally with my children, and I shall further draw up a
written request that in case I die before my brother, any money which
may fall to my children from him shall be shared equally with her. I
shall, out of my own private funds, provide for her support and
education, until she comes of age, or marries, and if possible, I shall
bring about a marriage between her and Tom, who will probably one day be
master of Tracy Park. Can anything more be required of me?'
'Nothing,' was the consoling reply; and as the sleigh just then drew up
before his door, Frank alighted from it, and said to himself as he ran
up the steps:
'I believe I have been riding with the devil, and have made a league
with him!'
He found the house thoroughly aired and cleansed from all signs of the
recent funeral; and when, at one o'clock, he sat down to lunch in the
handsome dining-room, and sipped his favorite claret, and ate his
foreign preserves, and thought how much comfort and luxury money could
buy, he was sure he had done well for himself and his children after
him.
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