These creditors of Mountjoy can't force their way in upon you." "You are wrong there." "They have not done so." "Nor should they, though I were as strong as you.

What are Mountjoy's creditors to me?
They have not a scrap of my handwriting in their possession.

There is not one who can say that he has even a verbal promise from me.

They never came to me when they wanted to lend him money at fifty per cent.

Did they ever hear me say that he was my heir ?" "Perhaps not." "Not one has ever heard it.