that Lampert's promises were going to be fulfilled. His father and Lampert would come to an agreement. It did not matter, he comprehended now, that Lampert might have let his father suspect that he was here. It might even be necessary for Lampert to open the door between the rooms and show him to his father, since Lampert's possession of him was the reason for the agreement.
"Let's talk this over." This was his father.
"You're right, we'll talk it over. What we'll talk over is how much you're going to do. I'm thinking of my daughter. She lived hard and rough. Her mother grieved about her; she didn't like to hear folks talk. You started her that way. A girl like that had ought to pick up something in her life and leave a bank-account for her old father and her mother. If she don't what's the use of living in that way? I always thought she'd leave a little pile for us. She didn't. She would if you'd done by her as you'd ought. What you didn't do then for her it's right that you ought to do now for us and for the boy."
