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Yet they did succeed in living through it and in leading time a merry dance too, for young Treffrey Graham, junior, all old scores forgotten, was proving a prince of chums, as spirited in play as he was prompt in a pinch.
I didn't know whether I wanted to meet them again. Although I liked the look of my little niece; I had seen her, at a distance, with her mother. And then, we didn't need the money, my boy and I! Had enough of our own; Treffrey Graham may be a terror, but he isn't a failure financially!"
"And so and so, it's all hung up for another dozen years unless Treffrey Graham comes back to claim the money! Well! I'm sorry, Professor Lorry; there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip," said the lawyer, laying down the codicil with a blue look; he was interested in invention, progressive invention he had never thought that the Thunder Bird was a Quaker gun.
For now, according to the testator's wish, if his brother, Treffrey Graham, had not yet returned to claim his portion of his elder brother's wealth, then the money a little bonanza, indeed, a solid fortune was to be turned over, forthwith, to the University of his native city, to be used for developments in the science of the air the upper air and what lay beyond it chiefly for the furtherance of any inventions that might be put forward by the dead man's trusted friend, Professor Lorry.
Grosvenor, hasn't already got, will still be held in trust by me, as executor of the will, for for that griffin of a younger brother of his who cleared out over twenty years ago and hasn't sent a line to his family since." "Was Mr. Treffrey Graham really such a zany?" Pem asked the question for the nineteenth time, her black eyebrows arching. "My word!
"Little girl!" Treffrey Graham's eye winked upon a mote of fun that softened to a mist. "Your fa-ther's invention is the gr-reatest thing yet; it's a Success I know that from the one glimpse I had at the record " Pemrose winced "but but you may tell him from me that I doubt if, after all, his Thunder Bird is the best thing he's turned out." "Some-somebody coming!
"Called him up on the long distance telephone, told him I was Treffrey Graham back; that I had been in the East nearly six months, with my son; that I came pretty near disclosing myself on the on the day when the third installment of my brother's will was read actually walked up to the door of my sister's house, then shied off, because ... Oh, gosh! this knee."
Her eyes stared straight before her, blue as the June violet that caught a drop from the spring near. "Who who are you?" screamed Una, forgetting that she was speaking to a broken man. "How about my being your uncle, Treffrey Graham, my dear, who who was such a mad fellow in youth; s-such an oddity? Oh-h! you've heard of him have you?"
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