"Just what is this?" Beman asked.
"What Mr. Lampert found was the written statement of a minister, legally correct, that on the eighteenth day of October, 1908, he performed the ceremony of marriage between Walter Wendell Markyn and Helen Lampert—"
"We've had the thing looked up," Lampert exclaimed. "We've found the town and the place where the ceremony was done. She'd ought to have been riding in her automobile all the time; she'd ought to have had money to send to her folks and have us to live with her."
Beeman listened silently.
"As Mr. Lampert says, our evidence shows that Helen Lampert, for more than ten years, was deprived of her marital rights," broke in the lawyer.
What, Peewee wondered, were marital rights?
"Helen Lampert is dead," said Beman. "It don't matter to her now what she was deprived of. What we're discussing here is the effect of this upon my granddaughter."
"That is why we came to you, Mr. Beman."
"Got this thing with you that you speak of?"
