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302 to the carriage, when Mr. Palmer said impressively, "You must be detained a moment." "Helen has no money, and refuses help from me, in the belief that her mamma has left plenty for present use, but will let no one open the drawer but Mr. Glentworth: here is the key." "That is exactly what my wife would do under the same circumstances. Lady Anne certainly merits well at the hands of her sons-in-law." "True; but she meant you all to pay for the education of your wives." "Here are thirty sovereigns, in the first place; put them in your pocket, Helen; and here is one of the hundred-pound bills I sent her when I went away." "The other is in this drawer, and labelled, 'to buy Count Riccardini a horse.'" "I am very, very glad of that," said Glentworth, "though it proves my suspicions were too just. Here are also bills amounting to three hundred and fifty pounds." The daughters being together above, Mr. Palmer exclaimed, "So, then, with more than four hundred pounds in this desk, we had an execution in the house for seventy-three, poor Helen being alone,