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What is the matter with this brat?

I itch!

It ’s warm, and he ’s got on his heavy flannels! He ’s as clean as you are!

[Jane and Judge sit.

You said to heat this room up and wait here for you and the Judge. Why? I got my stock to tend.

It ’s a bad time for me to get away from the store; What was it you wanted of us?

I ’m afraid it isn’t going to be easy to tell you.

Won’t you let me do it, Jane?

No. I ’ve come to know that your mother did n’t really want that I should have the Jordan money.

What ’s that?

I put it as simply as I could.

You mean a later will ’s been found?

No.

In a way, Judge, it ’s like there had. Your mother left me a letter dated later than the will.