Kate is the only child.
The old man's billion, or more, will surely come to her, practically every penny of it.

Flint is more than sixty-three this very minute, he's a dope-fiend, and his heart's damned weak.

He's liable to drop off, any moment.

If I get Kate, and he dies, what a fortune! What a prize! Added to my interests, it will make me master of the world! "Then, too, this new Air Trust scheme positively demands that Flint and I should be bound together by something closer than mere financial association.

I've simply got to be one of the family.