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"I Am Profoundly Convinced that My Son Is A Fool," Read The Will Of
Old John Burnit. "I Am, However, Also Convinced that I Allowed him To
Become So By Too Much Absorption In my Own Affairs And Too Little In
His, And, Therefore, His Being a Fool Is Hereditary; Consequently, I
Feel It My Duty, First, To Give Him A Fair Trial At Making his Own
Way, And Second, To Place The Balance Of My Fortune In such Trust That
He Can Not Starve. The Trusteeship Is Already Created and The Details
Are Nobody'S Present Business. My Son Robert Will Take Over The John
Burnit Store And Personally Conduct It, As His Only Resource, Without
Further Question As To What Else I May Have Left Behind Me. This Is My
Last Will And Testament."



That Is How Cheerful Bobby Burnit, With No Thought Heretofore Above
Healthy Amusements And Agnes Elliston, Suddenly Became A Business Man,
After Having been Raised to Become The Idle Heir To About Three
Million. Of Course, Having no Kith Nor Kin In all This Wide World, He
Went Immediately To Consult Agnes. It Is Quite Likely That If He Had
Been Supplied with Dozens Of Uncles And Aunts He Would Have Gone First
To Agnes Anyhow, Having a Mighty Regard For Her Keen Judgment, Even
Though Her Clear Gaze Rested now And Then All Too Critically Upon
Himself. Just As He Came Whirling up The Avenue He Saw Nick Allstyne'S
White Car, Several Blocks Ahead Of Him, Stop At Her Door, And A Figure
Which He Knew Must Be Nick Jump Out And Trip Up The Steps. Almost
Immediately The Figure Came Down Again, Much More Slowly, And Climbed
Into The Car, Which Whizzed away.



"Not At Home," Grumbled bobby.