eemed son-in-law,
Edward Westonley, of Marumbah Downs, I give and bequeath the sum of one
thousand pounds, to be by him used in the manner he may deem best for
the benefit of the Marumbah Jockey Club, of which for ten years he has
been patron. To his wife (my daughter Elizabeth) I bequeath as a token
of my appreciation of her efforts to improve the moral condition of
illiterate and irreligious bushmen, the sum of one thousand pounds,
provided that she first consults and has the approval of my wife
Eleanor, as to the manner in which the said money shall be expended."

Then, as if to show that despite this gentle sarcasm towards the
cold-hearted daughter who had never forgiven him for his second
marriage, and had so long alienated herself from her stepbrother and
sister, he still bore her a parental affection, he added another
clause (also with an unintended sting in it) to the effect that if Mrs
Westonley should have issue, male or female, five thousand pounds was
to be invested for her first child, to be paid upon coming of age,
"also the like sum for the first child of my beloved and affectionate
daughter, Mary Rayner."

"Poor Lizzie!" said Tom Gerrard to his brother-in-law, Westonley, after
the contents of the will were made known, "she won't be pleased at this,
I fear, Ted."

"She won't, Tom," replied Westonley frankly, as he placed his hand on
Gerrard's shoulder with a kindly gesture, "but, between you and I,
she has nothing to be angered at. I am pretty well in, and if I died
to-morrow, she would be well provided for. And I don't think--I'm not
disloyal to my wife--I don't think that she was quite as kind as she
might have been to your mother and to you, and to poor Mary."

Of course the death of Mrs Gerrard simultaneously with that of her
husband, somewhat complicated matters, for she had made no will, and was
evidently not aware of the nature of that made by Captain Gerrard; for
she was of too gentle and kindly a nature to have permitted him to have
written anything that could have aroused a feeling of resentment in
the mind of his first-born child, although that child, from the day
she returned from England had treated her with unconcealed hauteur and
coldness.

At last, however, matters were finally settled, and Mrs Westonley,
although she did resent most bitterly what she called her father's
"wicked will," consented, at her husband's earnest request, to take
charge of and educate Mary Rayner's orphan chi