Good gracious, Alice, you must give me credit for a little intelligence once in a while!" Alice was puzzled.

"But what else could there be except a chance?
I don't see----" "Well, I do," her mother interrupted, decisively.

"That man could make us all well off right now if he wanted to.

We could have been rich long ago if he'd ever really felt as he ought to about his family." "What! Why, how could----" "You know how as well as I do," Mrs.Adams said, crossly.

"I guess you haven't forgotten how he treated me about it the Sunday before he got sick." She went on with her work, putting into it a sudden violence inspired by the recollection; but Alice, enlightened, gave utterance to a laugh of lugubrious derision.