6/12 I ran all the way to the station house and back--a mile or more--and brought the paper and a pen and ink, besides. It was but a telegraph blank--all I could find. Naught but a telegraph blank, lad." Again his voice trailed away into a mumbling whisper, but now Uncle John and Donald looked into one another's eyes with sudden interest. "So I held the paper for him, and the brakeman supported Master Tom's poor body, and he wrote out the will as clear as may be." "The will!" "Sure enough; Master Tom's last will. Isn't my name on it, too, where I signed it? |