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That general’s widow, their nearest relation, suddenly lost the two nieces who were her heiresses and next-of-kin—both died in the same week of small-pox. The old lady, prostrated with grief, welcomed Katya as a daughter, as her one hope, clutched at her, altered her will in Katya’s favor. But that concerned the future.
Now, as you are a relation, suppose you call on his housekeeper, who was the last person to see him, and get all the information you can out of her? Draw her on to talk you never know what interesting point you mayn't get in that way. And are you Mr. Horbury's nearest relation?" "Yes the very nearest next-of-kin," answered Betty.
Jasper Vermont had died intestate; and although advertisements were inserted in various papers, seeking his next-of-kin, no answers were received. The money, therefore, reverted to the Crown; and Mr. Harker, taking up his real name of Goodwin, settled in Kingston with his daughter and her husband, who now, thanks to Lord Barminster, owned a flourishing business.
Thus all the hopes of the real heir were dashed to the ground, for it was not to be expected that the next-of-kin, who knew nothing of the supposed Provis, or of Sir Hugh's marriage, would yield up the estates to an utter stranger, without a severe struggle and a desperate litigation.
By a curious freak of destiny, when the tide of events connected with the war had given to the Progressive English party a clear majority in the Cape Parliament, Jameson assumed its leadership as a matter of course, largely because he was the political next-of-kin to Rhodes.
Phillips had been just as freely mentioned in the newspapers as Gilverthwaite; but no one had made inquiries after him, though there was a tidy sum of money of his in the Peebles bank for his next-of-kin to claim. Who was he, then? Mr. Lindsey was evidently deep in thought, or, I should perhaps say, in surmise.
"But what has all this to do with Lady Boxspur?" he suddenly demanded, wondering how long he should be able to have faith in that inner, unshaken integrity of hers which had passed through so many trials and survived so many calamities. But she hurried on, as though unconscious of both his tone and his attitude. "That has more to do with the next-of-kin agency.
These ten years past I have been wearing my life out for these two old bachelors yonder, and neither or them has given me anything but words. Well, there is one up there that will die soon, eh? and he the richer of the two that I have treated like my own children. We shall only get our due by taking it, upon my word, as an honest woman, for as for trusting to the next-of-kin! No fear!
The obligation on the next-of-kin to buy back alienated property was quite as much imposed on him for the sake of the family as of the individual. The second of his duties was to buy back a member of his family fallen into slavery.
Everything will be his, no doubt; but the legatee cannot take possession without an authorization an order from the Tribunal. And if the next-of-kin set aside by the testator should dispute the order, a lawsuit is the result.
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