Page:Icebound.pdf/24

12

Nonsense! She ’ll divide equally between us three; won’t she, Henry?

(sadly)

She ’ll do as she pleases, I guess we all know that.

She ’s a religious woman, she ’s got to be fair!

Well, I guess it would be fair enough if she was to remember the trouble I ’ve had with my business. I don’t know what she ’s worth, she’s as tight-mouthed as a bear trap, but I could use more’n a third of quite a little sum.

Well, you won’t get it. Not if I go to law.

It ’s disgusting. Talking about money at a time like this.

I like to see folks reasonable. I don’t know what you ’d want of a third of all mother ’s got, Ella.

(to Ella)

You, all alone in the world!

Maybe I won’t be, when I get that money.

You don’t mean you ’d get married?

At your age!

I mean I never had anything in all my life; now I ’m going to. I ’m the youngest of all of you, except Ben, and he never was a real Jordan. I ’ve never had a