Everyone expected that he 'd purvide well for Rose and Min 'd come in second best . But no will was to be found . I do n't say but what it was all right , mind you . I may have my own secret opinion , of course . Old Palmer had a regular mania , as ye might say , for makin ' wills . He 'd have a lawyer out from town every year and have a new will made and the old one burnt . Lawyer Bell was there and made one ` bout eight months ` fore he died . It was s ` posed he 'd destroyed it and then died ` fore he 'd time to make another . He went off awful sudden . Anyway , everything went to Min 's child -- to Min as ye might say . She 's been boss . Rose still stayed on there and Min let her , which was more than folks expected of her . But she 's turned her out at last . Min 's in one of her tantrums now and ` tai n't safe to cross her path . '' `` What is Mrs. Fuller to do ? '' asked Telford anxiously . `` That 's the question . She 's sickly -- ca n't work much -- and then she has her leetle gal . Min was always jealous of that child . It 's a real purty , smart leetle creetur and old Palmer made a lot of it .
XXXXX 's own is an awful-looking thing -- a cripple from the time 't was born .
Bell Min Palmer Rose Telford creetur months right second year