Partners by Grace Livingston Hill

Author:Grace Livingston Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbour Publishing Inc
Published: 2016-03-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The first letter was from the agent regarding her inheritance, which it appeared was not an inheritance at all, but money that had been put in her name from time to time, during her girlhood. It enclosed papers that she was to fill out and sign in the presence of a competent witness, establishing her identity. It suggested that she go to the bank through which they had first made contact with her, and have the papers made out in legal form. Then on her coming twenty-first birthday the money would be placed in the bank to her account, and she would be at liberty to draw upon it. There was also enclosed a check of several hundred dollars, which represented the interested on her money for the last six months.

Dale sat stupefied and gazed at that magic little piece of paper, which the letter said belonged to her. Gazed at it in wonder and couldn't make it seem real.

Here she had been in dire distress for her daily bread, mourning because she had so little to tide her over till she found a job, grieving that she had no possible means of taking care of this dear baby herself, if it should be in danger of being sent to an orphanage. And she had all this wealth!

For the instant her brain was too numbed to calculate what the whole sum of her capital was, but it seemed enormous to her. From nothing to plenty! That was how she had come! And it was the Lord's doing, that she knew! A direct answer to prayer. More than an answer to her prayer, for she had never asked for much, not even for plenty. "Just a little bit of money!" she had pleaded, and it was quite awhile ago. Those days during the baby's illness had seemed so long that she had almost forgotten that she had asked for money. She had entirely forgotten that some money was coming sometime. During these last few strenuous days her whole mind had been taken up with the baby and nothing else had seemed to matter.

How was it that a little human mite like that had so entered into her soul and drawn her love? Probably she was going to have another struggle by and by when--but no! This money would make it possible for her to take care of that baby now!

Still it wasn't her baby. It really belonged to Rand. He had found it. She couldn't just pick it up and carry it off without his wish of course. And it was going to be terribly hard to give it up. Tears welled into her eyes as she thought about it.

And because the nurse was going about in the room, putting things to right, getting the baby ready for his evening meal, and she didn't want the nurse to see her tears, she stuffed the letter into its envelope and took up the other one.

The writing looked strangely familiar as she studied it thoughtfully.

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