"Everything down but the sound mind," said Fitz; "but go on."
"Do hereby," continued the colonel.
"What's all this for--another challenge?" said Fitz, looking up.
"No, Fitz,"--the colonel did not like his tone,--"but a few partin'
instructions which will answer in place of a more formally drawn will."
Fitz scratched on until the preamble was finished, and the unincumbered
half of Carter Hall had been bequeathed to "my ever valued aunt Ann
Carter, spinster," and he had reached a new paragraph beginning with,
"All bonds, stocks, and shares, whether founders', preferred, or common,
of the corporation known as the Cartersville and Warrentown Air Line
Railroad, particularly the sum of 25,000 shares of said company
subscribed for by the undersigned, I hereby bequeath," when Fitz stopped
and laid down his pen.
"You can't leave that stock. Not transferred to you yet."
"I know it, Fitz; but I have pledged my word to take it, and so far
as I am concerned, it is mine."
Fitz looked over his glasses at me, and completed the sentence by which
this also became "the exclusive property of Ann Carter, spinster.
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