Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories by Frances Henshaw Baden
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the 'Australian Mining Company.' Surely you have not forgotten your
large amount in our State bonds? And how much you have in 'Fire and Life Insurance stock' I cannot just remember now. However, by reference to the papers I can tell." Again she watched her husband's face. It only expressed a rather puzzled brain, as though he was trying to remember. "You have such papers? I cannot think," he said. "Don't try to, dear. It is not necessary. I will just look over your papers, and make a statement; and when I read them over to you in presence of the lawyer, you can assent. You wish an equal division between myself and our daughters, I know. Is it not so?" "Yes, yes. You are always right," murmured her husband. "There, dear, go to sleep now. Some time when you are easy we will fix this," said Mrs. Brownson. And the next day, at an hour when she knew her husband's mind was best prepared, a lawyer was summoned, and a statement of stocks and bonds to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars placed before him, and Mark Brownson expressed his wish to have an equal division of his effects made between his wife and two children. The will was made, and duly signed and witnessed by two of the nearest neighbors and the only domestic, a worthy woman who had been with Mrs. Brownson for many years. |
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