Leah did not question him closely. With a selfish regard for her own safety, in case anything might leak out, she preferred that the doctor should arrange matters in his own way. But she obeyed instructions to the extent of hinting to the Duke that Kingston was the very best place for dear Jim's weak lungs. "Will you go with him?" asked Pentland, anxiously. "Oh no," said Lady Jim, sweetly; "we mustn't make too much fuss over him, else he'll think he's going to die." "He might," sighed the Duke. "I had an uncle----" and he described the sufferings of old Lord George for the tenth time. Leah comforted him after the manner of one Bildad, a Shuhite. "Oh, Kingston will do Jim no end of good, my dear Duke. It won't cure one lung, but it may patch up the other. And then, you know, if he gets worse, I can always reach him in fourteen days." "Does Demetrius think he will die?" asked the Duke, piteously. "He doesn't think poor Jim will ever be so strong as he was," said Leah, gravely; "but he'll hang on, with care." "Just like my grandmother," muttered the Duke, and then detailed the sufferings of a dowager duchess, who couldn't be kept alive beyond the age of sixty. "If Jim lives till that age, I shall be content," said Leah. "Are you thinking of the insurance money?" demanded Pentland, with sudden anger. "What insurance money? Oh yes, I think Jim did mention something about an insurance." "He gets it if he lives till sixty." "Really! I don't quite understand, Duke, but I'm sure it's all right." "I hope so, my dear. Has he made his will?" "No. Why should he?" "Because, in the event of his dying, the insurance money should be left to you. No will means trouble." Leah had never thought of a will, as it seemed natural that the money should come to her without the necessity of paying lawyers' bills. But her quick brain seized the chance of smoothing the way to acquiring the fortune with as little trouble as possible, and she promptly cornered the Duke. "_You_ speak to him," she suggested. And this the Duke did, with the result that a will leaving the money to Leah was drawn up and signed, after some opposition, by Jim. He did not at all relish the carrying out of this necessary step. It was too like preparing a death certificate to please Jim. However, as a reward for his obedience, Demetrius set him on his legs, and Jim went to Torquay with the devoted Leah. But when he was settled in a comfortable hotel as an interesting invalid, and with a superfluity of pretty girls to soothe him with sympathy, Lady Jim left him for a round of visits to various country-houses. Now that the Duke was out of sight, Jim's connubial comforts were out of mind; but Leah left strict injunctions that he was not to put on flesh. Within the month, she was to see him start for Jamaica, and impressed upon him the necessity of looking quite ready to depart for a place where Jim had no desire to go.