The old man showed himself keenly interested in his grand-daughter's fate.
"I would give a great deal to see her before I die," he said.

"Whatever I have to leave will be hers.

It may be little or much--I won't speak about that; but I've lived a hard life, and saved where other men would have spent.

I should like to see my son's child; I should like to have some one of my own flesh and blood about me in my last days." "Would it not be a good plan to put an advertisement into the _Times_, addressed to Mrs.Holbrook, from a relation?
She would be likely to answer that, when she would not reply to any appeal coming directly from me." "Yes," answered Jacob Nowell; "and her husband would let her come to me for the sake of what I may have to leave her.

But that can't be helped, I suppose; it is the fate of a man who lives as I have lived, to be cared for at last only for what he has to give.