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I was in great hopes he would follow my narrative with what he knew of the sword, but he was still silent, and I could not question him, for I had long suspected that its history had to do with the secret which he wanted me to keep from myself. The very day of my arrival I went up to my grandmother's room, which I found just as she had left it.
"I'm not crazy to go to Santa Clara, and yet it's something awful living at my grandmother's house! I'd like to kill my grandfather, I know that. He's the meanest old man I ever saw.
"There bain't no luck in diamonds," mumbled the old woman, "an' there bain't no luck in wracks. The devil bes in the both o' them, Denny." The skipper passed through his grandmother's bed-room and entered the cold and un-aired chamber that was reserved for the use of Father McQueen.
The black chair subsided with the look of an injured individual, and the high chair commenced to complain, but was interrupted by the sewing chair, who thought that "females had some rights." She was silenced, however, by my grandmother's old chair, who leaned on the table while she spoke. The old lady complained of the neglect of old age by the younger generation.
Also it turned out this father hadn't cast him off from so much after all, because the old man went flat broke in Wall Street a couple of months later, perishing of heart failure right afterward, and about the only thing Clyde would of drawn from the estate anyway was an old-fashioned watch of his grandfather's with a chain made from his grandmother's hair when she was a bride.
They had been her grandmother's when she was Marguerite's age; and one day, not long before this, Marguerite, pillaging the attic, had found them and brought them down, with adoring eyes, and put them up before her own windows.
"You mustn't mind your grandmother's temper just at first, my dear. She's old, poor soul, and she ain't well, and she's sometimes cross above a bit. But she'll be that proud of you, she won't know if she's on her 'eels or 'er 'ead; and as for a cross word now and again, I hope as you won't mind " "I shan't mind anything, grandpapa," said Phoebe, sweetly, "so long as I can be of use."
"Not instinct, but my father Desborough, pointed out the spot, as he had long previously acquainted me with the history of my birth." "One question more your grandmother's name?" "Mad Ellen she was called, an English soldier's wife, who died in giving birth to my father and now that you are answered, leave me."
Then there were Sam, and Lucy Peters, and Jim Boynton, up to all sorts of mischief in the kitchen, Susan Boynton and Nelly James cracking nuts and their fingers on the hearth, father and mother up-stairs in grandmother's room; for grandmother was bedridden, but kindly, and good, and humorous, and patient, even in her hopeless bed, and nobody was dearer to the whole family than she.
"Yes," she said simply; and the heart of Average Jones rose and swore a high loyalty. "Listen, then. I think I see a clear way. Judge Ackroyd will kill the dog if he can, and so effectually conceal the body that no funeral can be held over it, thereby rendering your grandmother's bequest to you void. He has only a few days to do it in, but I don't think that all your watchfulness can restrain him.
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