It will depend on what kind of a woman she is . I had a second letter also of a somewhat mysterious tenor . It is from a Charlottetown lawyer , asking me to go in to see him at my earliest convenience in regard to a certain matter connected with the estate of the ` late Mrs. Matilda Pitman . ' `` I read a notice of Mrs. Pitman 's death -- from heart failure -- in the Enterprise a few weeks ago . I wonder if this summons has anything to do with Jims . '' 5th October 1918 `` I went into town this morning and had an interview with Mrs. Pitman 's lawyer -- a little thin , wispy man , who spoke of his late client with such a profound respect that it is evident that he as was much under her thumb as Robert and Amelia were . He drew up a new will for her a short time before her death . She was worth thirty thousand dollars , the bulk of which was left to Amelia Chapley . But she left five thousand to me in trust for Jims . The interest is to be used as I see fit for his education , and the principal is to be paid over to him on his twentieth birthday . Certainly Jims was born lucky . I saved him from slow extinction at the hands of Mrs. Conover -- Mary Vance saved him from death by diptheritic croup -- his star saved him when he fell off the train . And he tumbled not only into a clump of bracken , but right into this nice little legacy . `` Evidently , as Mrs. Matilda Pitman said , and as I have always believed , he is no common child and he has no common destiny in store for him . `` At all events he is provided for , and in such a fashion that Jim Anderson ca n't squander his inheritance if he wanted to . Now , if the new English stepmother is only a good sort I shall feel quite easy about the future of my war-baby . `` I wonder what Robert and Amelia think of it . I fancy they will nail down their windows when they leave home after this ! '' CHAPTER XXXIII VICTORY ! `` A day ` of chilling winds and gloomy skies , ' '' Rilla quoted one Sunday afternoon -- the sixth of October to be exact .
It was so cold that they had lighted a fire in the living-room and the merry little flames were doing their best XXXXX counteract the outside dourness .
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