In order to secure some token by which to remember a great-aunt
to whom she had been much attached, Mlle. Bertha Chevanne, a
young French woman, of Paris, attended a sale of the old lady’s
effects. The girl was poor and most of the articles were beyond
her purse. A shabby old book--a book of devotions--was, however,
put up. Nobody bid for it except Mademoiselle Chevanne, and she
bought it for next to nothing. In turning over the leaves she
came across a folded paper. It was a will bequeathing her the
whole of her great-aunt’s estate, valued at $80,000.
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