I am hoping you will take charge of her and bring her up to be a good girl and a good woman, same as her mother was before her.

I know you two will be just the ones for the job.
"Jumpin' fire!" broke in Shadrach, the irrepressible.
"Hush, Shadrach," continued Mr.Hamilton.

"Go on, Judge." Baxter continued his reading.

The letter told of the will, of the property, whatever it might be, left in trust for the child, and of the writer's desire that it might be used, when turned into money, for her education.

There were two pages of rambling references to stocks and investments, the very vagueness of these references proving the weakening shrewdness and lack of business acumen of Captain Hall in his later years.