Ch'est b'en! Your money and mine take more than half of what he
gets. If you'll put yours to mine I'll make up the difference from what
I've saved, and we'll retraite the farm, and it shall go to Nance and
Bernel when the time comes."
"I can't help thinking it's rather hard on Tom," suggested Mrs. Hamon,
with less vigour than before.
The idea appealed strongly to her maternal feelings and she had suffered
much from Tom; still her instinct for right was there and was not to be
stifled with a word.
"If you feel so when the time comes we could divide it among them, and
till then Tom would have to behave himself," said the wily old lady,
with a chuckle.
That again appealed strongly to Mrs. Hamon.
"Yes, I think I would agree to that," she said, after thinking it all
over.
All things considered, Grannie's scheme was an excellent one and worthy
of her.
By a curious anomaly of Sark law, though a man may not mortgage his
property without the consent of his next-in-succession, he can sell it
outright and do what he chooses with the proceeds. His wife has a dower
right of one-third of both real and personal estate, into which she
enters upon his death.
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