--finding myself seriously ill in bed, but with sound judgment,
full memory and understanding, believing in the ineffable
mysteries of the Holy Trinity, three distinct persons in one God,
in essence, and in the other mysteries acknowledged by our Mother,
the Church--
So! This was a will--one of those queer Spanish documents of which
Alaire had heard--but who was Maria Josefa Law? Alaire scanned the
sheets curiously, and on the reverse side of the last one
discovered a few lines, also in Spanish, but scrawled in pencil.
They read:
MY DEAR NEPHEW,--Here is the copy of your mother's will that I
told you about. At the time of her death she was not possessed of
the property mentioned herein, and so the original document was
never filed for record, but came to me along with certain family
possessions of small value. It seems to contain the information
you desire.
Y'rs aff'ly,
FRANCISCO RAMIREZ.
The will of Dave's mother! Then Maria Josefa Law was that poor
woman regarding whose tragic end Judge Ellsworth had spoken so
peculiarly. Alaire felt not a little curiosity to know more about
the mother of the man whose name she had taken.
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