, directed to her,
that, while thanking you for the expression of intention therein
contained anent the property left by the late Henry G. Surface, and
very cordially appreciating the spirit actuating Mr. Henry G.
Surface, Jr., in the matter, she nevertheless feels herself without
title or claim to said property, and therefore positively declines
to accept it, in whole or in any part.
Respectfully yours,
AMPERSAND, BOLTING AND BYRD.
A more argumentative and insistent letter from Messrs. Blair and
Jamieson was answered with the same brief positiveness by Messrs.
Ampersand, Boiling and Byrd. Thereafter, no more communications were
exchanged by the attorneys. But a day or two after her second refusal,
Sharlee Weyland received another letter about the matter of dispute,
this time a more personal one. The envelope was directed in a small neat
hand which she knew very well; she had first seen it on sheets of yellow
paper in Mrs. Paynter's dining-room. The letter said:
DEAR Miss WEYLAND:---
Your refusal to allow my father's estate to restore to you, so far
as it can, the money which it took from you, and thus to right, in
part, a grave wrong, is to me a great surprise and disappointment.
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