You have been very faithful to my interests and have helped materially to increase my fortune." "Thank you, Jane." He wrote down the amount as calmly as he had done the others.
"And the boy ?" he asked, persistently.
Aunt Jane sighed wearily, and leaned against her pillows.
"Give the boy two thousand," she said.
"Make it ten, Jane." "I'll make it five, and not a penny more," she rejoined.

"Now leave me, and prepare the paper at once.

I want to sign it today, if possible." He bowed gravely, and left the room.
Toward evening the lawyer came again, bringing with him a notary from the village.

Dr.Eliel, who had come to visit Patricia, was also called into Jane Merrick's room, and after she had carefully read the paper in their presence the mistress of Elmhurst affixed her signature to the document which transferred the great estate to the little Irish girl, and the notary and the doctor solemnly witnessed it and retired.
"Now, Silas," said the old woman, with a sigh of intense relief, "I can die in peace." Singularly enough, the signing of the will seemed not to be the end for Jane Merrick, but the beginning of an era of unusual comfort.

On the following morning she awakened brighter than usual, having passed a good night, freed from the worries and anxieties that had beset her for weeks.