Accordingly, after
a moment of debate with herself, she sat down to translate the
instrument. Surely Dave would not object if she occupied herself
thus while he slept.
The document had evidently been drawn in the strictest form,
doubtless by some local priest, for it ran:
First: I commend my soul to the Supreme Being who from nothing
formed it, and my body I order returned to earth, and which, as
soon as it shall become a corpse, it is my wish shall be shrouded
with a blue habit in resemblance to those used by the monks of our
Seraphic Father, St. Francis; to be interred with high mass,
without pomp--
Alaire mused with a certain reverent pleasure that Dave's mother
had been a devout woman.
Second: I declare to have, in the possession of my husband,
Franklin Law, three horses, with splendid equipment of saddles and
bridles, which are to be sold and the proceeds applied to masses
for the benefit of my soul. I so declare, that it may appear.
Third: I declare to owe to Mrs. Guillelmo Perez about twenty
dollars, to be ascertained by what she may have noted in her book
of accounts. So I declare, that this debt may be paid as I have
ordered.
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