"Pierce!" cried Jenny, excitedly, as she sprang to her brother's breast, her face glowing from the result of shockingly selfish thoughts connected with Claud Wilton and matrimony, "and you mean to ask her that?" He nodded, kissed her lovingly, and hurried to Kate Wilton's side. The interview was strictly private, as a matter of course, but the consequences were not long in following, and among other things James Wilton made his will--the will of a straightforward, honest man. There were people who said that the passing of the Limited Liability Act was mainly due to the way in which Kate Wilton's fortune was swept away. That undoubtedly was a piece of fiction, but out of evil came much good. THE END. End of Project Gutenberg's Cursed by a Fortune, by George Manville Fenn