Your title to the said
estate is clear; but it is quite necessary that you should appear
before our Courts with proofs of identity, and so forth. On
receipt from you of acknowledgment of this letter, with copies of
identification papers (your grandfather's naturalization papers,
your father's discharge from army, your own birth certificate and
marriage lines, and so forth) I will give myself the pleasure of
forwarding any further particulars you may wish, and likewise
place at your command my own services in obtaining possession for
you of your great uncle's estate.
"The said estate of Mr. Hugh Blake, deceased, amounts, in real
and personal property, including moneys in the bank, to about the
sum, roughly estimated, of 10,000 pounds.
"Respectfully, your servant,
"Andrew Blake, Solicitor and Att'y."
Nan had leaned over her mother's shoulder, big-eyed, scarce
believing the plainly written words she read. It was
preposterous, ridiculous, fanciful, a dream from which she
must awake in a moment to the full realization of their dreadful
need of just such a godsend as this.
It was her father's voice that roused the girl. He had not seen
the letter and Momsey had read it silently to herself.
"Look out, Nancy! What is the matter with your mother?"
With a cry the girl caught the frail little lady in her arms as
the letter slipped unheeded from her lap to the floor.
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