shouldn't there be a little Giblet as well as a little Popenjoy?
Only it won't be a Giblet as long as dear old Lord Gossling can
keep the gout out of his stomach. They say that in anger at his
son's marriage he has forsworn champagne and confines himself to
two bottles of claret a-day. But Giblet, who is the happiest young
man of my acquaintance, says that his wife is worth it all.

"And so our friend the Captain is a millionaire! What will he do?
Wasn't it an odd will? I couldn't be altogether sorry, for I have
a little corner in my heart for the Captain, and would have left
him something myself if I had anything to leave. I really think he
had better marry his old love. I like justice, and that would be
just. He would do it to-morrow if you told him. It might take me a
month of hard work. How much is it he gets? I hear such various
sums,--from a hundred thousand down to as many hundreds.
Nevertheless, the will proves the man to have been mad,--as I
always said he was.

"I suppose you'll come to Munster Court till the house in the
square be finished. Or will you take some furnished place for a
month or two? Munster Court is small; but it was very pretty, and
I hope I may see it again.

"Kiss the little Popenjoy for me, and believe me to be,

"Dear Lady Brotherton,

"Your affectionate old friend,

"G. MONTACUTE JONES."

The next was from their friend the Captain himself.

"DEAR LADY BROTHERTON,--I hope it won't be wrong in me to
congratulate you on the birth of your baby. I do so with all my
heart. I hope that some day, when I am an old fogy, I may be
allowed to know him and remind him that in old days I used to know
his mother. I was down at Manor Cross the other day; but of course
on such an occasion I could not see you. I was sent for because of
that strange will; but it was more strange to me that I should so
soon find myself in your house. It was not very bright on that
occasion.

"I wonder who was surprised most by the will,--you or I?" Mary,
when she read this, declared to herself that she ought not to have
been surprised at all. How could anyone be surprised by what such
a man as that might do?

"He had never seen me, as far as I know, till he met me at Rudham.
I did not want his money,--though I was poor enoug