Tom Turner's Legacy Author:Horatio Alger General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: A. L. Burt Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / General History / General Juvenile Fiction / General Juvenile Fiction / Family / General Self-Help / General Self-Help / Personal Growth / Success Notes: This is a black and white OCR rep... more »rint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI. HANNIBAL CARTER'S IDEA. I Believe that is all," said the lawyer, folding up the will. "Are there any questions to be asked ?" " Can you tell me when I can get my uncle's trunk ?" asked Tom. " If I could get it to-day, I might have it sent home." " If you will give me your address I will have it sent you by express." " Thank you, sir." "How soon will the money be paid?" asked Miss Flora Pendergast. " I cannot promise, but it shall be as early as possible." This answered a question which Tom also intended to ask, for the hundred dollars would be very acceptable. "And how soon can we take possession of the house ?" asked Sophie. " Within a week." Meanwhile Mr. Carter had been busily engaged in thinking. The fact that his uncle had left barely two hundred and fifty dollars in legacies was most astonishing. That this was all he possessed he could not for a moment believe. Where then, was the rest ? Where did misers usually conceal their money ? In all probability he had buried it either in the cellar or somewhere in the lot attached to his house. In that case the three sisters would eventually find it and be made rich at the expense of the other heirs. The more Hannibal Carter thought of this idea, the more probable it seemed. Good Heavens ! was he to be robbed like this ? Why should he not buy the house and lot, and become himself the possessor of his uncle's secre...« less