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I wonder if you know that you have next door to you Ed 's only surviving near relative ? '' `` I learned it only an hour ago , Doctor . '' `` I see . I felt it my duty to inform Miss Walton of her cousin 's death and called on her at noon . Miss Walton 's parents and Ed 's were not intimate when the two were children ; some silly misunderstanding in regard to a division of old Colonel Phelps 's property after he died . As it turned out they might have spared themselves the quarrel , for a later will was afterwards found leaving his entire estate to churches and schools . Well , I was going to say that Ed 's death was not much of a grief to Miss Walton because she had really never known him , but , nevertheless , she would naturally wish to hear the particulars .