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I don’t know that I care to repeat it.

(fiercely)

You must repeat it!

Very well. The day that will was drawn she said to me, “The Jordans are all waiting for me to die, like carrion crows around a sick cow in a pasture, watchin’ till the last twitch of life is out of me before they pounce. I’m going to fool them,” she said, “I’m going to surprise them; they are all fools but Jane—Jane’s no fool.”

(bitterly)

No—Ha! Ha! Ha! Jane ’s no fool!

And she went on—(He turns to Jane) You ’ll forgive me Jane; she said, “Jane is stubborn, and set, and wilful, but she ’s no fool. She ’ll do better by the Jordan money than any of them.”

We ’ll go to law, that ’s what we ’ll do!

That ’s it, we ’ll go to law.

We can break that will; you know we can!

It ’s possible.

Possible! You know, don’t yer! You ’re supposed to be a good lawyer.

Of course if I am a good lawyer you can’t break that will, because you see I drew it.