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continued Bob . `` I am glad to see you are still safe . '' `` I am very well , thanks to Ernest Thornton , '' she replied . I headed the boat up the lake towards the cottage again , and proceeded to tell Bob all that had happened since midnight . He listened in amazement to my story . I showed him my father 's will , which I had not yet read , and we went through it together . `` It is very plain that they mean to cheat you out of the property your father left for you , '' said he .