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Not after I say she don’t.

Even then, because it ’s hers.

Hers?

From the moment of your mother’s death, everything here belonged to Jane.

Not everything.

Yes, everything—your mother’s whole estate.

Ha! Ha! Ha!

[He sits at right laughing bitterly.

That can’t be, Judge, you must be wrong. It ’s a mistake.

No.

My mother did this?

Yes.

Why? You ’ve got to tell me why!

That is n’t a part of my duties.

She could n’t have done a thing like that without sayin’ why. She said something, did n’t she?